Medicine & TechnologyResearchers argue that putting Fitbit-inspired devices on urban trees will provide data valuable for agriculture, which is vital for future climate change monitoring. Find out more about it in this article.
Using a machine-learning algorithm, a research team is learning which olive trees are inclined to get more infected than others. Read to know more about it.
“We’ve lost 95 percent of old-growth redwoods,” the park officials said, following an announcement that the world’s tallest tree is off-limits. Read to know more.
In an unprecedented detail of satellite data over the span of 37 years, scientists show the reduced forest cover of California as grasslands take over the place of trees. Read the article to know more about this.
An oak tree believed to be extinct was rediscovered in Big Bend National Park. Read more about the species and the plan of actions the government and science community have to preserve the remaining specimen.
For the first time, scientists found that common toads live in nests and tree cavities located meters up from the ground. Read more about the unexpected discovery.
Researchers used second world war codebreaking calculations that were employed at Bletchley Park and found over 9,000 undiscovered tree species, including rare and vulnerable to extinction trees.
How can something so small as bark beetles destroy something so big? Climate change has caused the insect population to bloom and now threatens more pine trees in the Sierra Nevada.
Gardening is often confined to its outputs, such as plants and trees without considering how growing them will improve people's health. Is gardening considered exercise?
Redwoods are known to be the world's tallest trees. But a novel laser technology reveals the true scale of their height, and it is bigger than previously thought.