Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Leaves are food factories for the tree. Powered by sunlight, the green ...

Bowdoin has 1,559 trees on its main campus, made up of more than 115 species, including 65 native ones. The tallest is a white pine, at 114 feet. The widest is a 156-inch northern red oak. The Bowdoin ...

While growing a home garden for a betel leaf plant (paan plant) may appear unusual, with the correct approach, it is actually quite possible. Many home gardeners are now trying their hand at minimum ...

Climate warming is linked to a widening interval between leaf unfolding and flowering in European trees, with implications for tree fitness and the wider environment, according to new research. An ...

When I was a child in the 1980s, my family traveled nearly every summer from our home in Los Angeles to the other side of the world. We spent monsoon-drenched weeks on my grandparents’ farm in ...