“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

While overseeing Florida’s response to Hurricane Idalia at the state emergency operations center, Gov. Ron DeSantis received word from First Lady Casey DeSantis that the storm split in half a century ...

This ailing oak tree, seen being trimmed in winter 2023, was removed from Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo due to safety concerns. Christopher Bijalba Tuesday marked the end of an era at Chicago’s Lincoln ...

Chevy Chase DC lost a neighborhood fixture on Monday: a gargantuan oak tree thought to be older than the United States. Located on a private property on the 2800 block of Northampton Street, Northwest ...

When a long branch fell from one of Maryland’s oldest and most beloved trees earlier this year, chain-saw carver Colin Vale inspected it and began envisioning how he could turn it into a sculpture.

The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the understorey due to a lack of light. One reason for this is the absence of ...

A note was added to the story to indicate the original Tappan Oak tree was close to 300 years when it was removed. ANN ARBOR, MI - The historic Tappan Oak tree at the University of Michigan was ...

Ron Durbin, who trekked with a group into a rugged Santa Clarita canyon, quickly spotted nearby trees pockmarked with D-shaped “exit holes,” a deadly calling card. This was the work of the goldspotted ...

Milwaukee County Parks crews are moving fast to stop the spread of a deadly fungus discovered for the first time in the area.