Scientists chasing thunderstorms in a retrofitted minivan finally captured something never seen before in nature: faint ...

Forests provide myriad benefits, including timber, wildlife attraction, local cooling and climate resilience. At the ...

Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change ...

Corona discharges, a weather phenomenon that eluded scientists for decades, has now been captured in nature as glow on tips ...

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...

Explore how cyborg botany transforms plants into living circuit boards, enabling real-time communication and early stress ...

Rain sounds may be soothing for humans, but for plants, the pitter-patter of droplets is more like a jarring morning alarm.

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Every year, as the leaves turn and a chill enters the air, a familiar debate lights up social media feeds. The question is simple yet divisive: when is the right time to put up the Christmas tree?

An army of treelike creatures called Ents marches to war in the second The Lord of the Rings movie, The Two Towers, walking for miles through dark forests. Once they arrive at the fortress of the evil ...