Secrest Arboretum will host its annual Autumn Discovery Day Plant Sale on Oct. 4. The event will run from 9 a.m. to noon at ...

Just outside Cottage Grove at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Dorena Research Center, scientists are playing a numbers ...

Most trees don’t ask for much attention. They grow slowly and mind their own leafy business. But among Earth’s 73,000 tree species, some are rare and legendary. They stand out not because they’re the ...

Brazil ranks among the countries with the largest reserves of rare earth elements. But scaling up the extraction of these ...

“It looks like the Natural Land Institute’s Legacy Tree Program has found yet another Illinois state champion tree: a rare American chestnut (Castanea dentata) in Freeport,” said Alan Branhagen, ...

Wooded heath is one of the UK’s rarest habitats and supports declining wildlife such as ground-nesting birds like the tree pipit, reptiles including adders, and specialist plants like heather.

SOCOTRA, Yemen -- On a windswept plateau high above the Arabian Sea, Sena Keybani cradles a sapling that barely reaches her ankle. The young plant, protected by a makeshift fence of wood and wire, is ...

During the second half of the 20th century, Thailand’s forest cover plummeted from around 50% to 25% due to urbanization and ...

The grapefruit tree growing on Queenstown Road in Battersea has been issued with a Tree Preservation Order (TPO), the local council announced on Thursday. It is one of just a handful of grapefruit ...

A rare bee species native to New York state was discovered in Syracuse at a SUNY College of Environmental Science and ...