Recent winter storms across North America have sparked viral social media posts warning of a dramatic phenomenon: exploding ...

Tree sap is mostly water with sugars and minerals, and like many liquids, it expands when it freezes. Gradual freezes usually ...

A viral social media post shared thousands of times warned of an “exploding tree risk." But experts say the dramatic imagery ...

The homesteading pros at Gold Shaw Farm demonstrate DIY maple syrup from tree to pancake. Supreme Court suggests it will allow concealed guns on some private property without owners’ direct permission ...

When we think of bark on a tree, we tend to compare it to the skin of a human. The primary function of both bark and skin is to protect the material within and beneath it. In Grade 7, we learned that ...

A new study has revealed that bark microbes feed off harmful greenhouse gases. The microbes studied eliminated different gases, depending on whether they lived in wetland, mangrove, or upland forests.

This wood came from a maple tree that had been growing for roughly 500 years. Long before modern tools, before electricity, this tree was already standing. Turning material with that kind of history ...

Luke Jeffrey receives funding from the Australian Research Council through an ARC DECRA Fellowship. Chris Greening receives funding from the Australian Research Council, National Health & Medical ...

The bark of a single tree can be home to trillions of bacteria, and these microbes may have an important but neglected role in controlling greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere. The total surface ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trees produce antibodies against harmful fungi. But bark beetles absorb these antibodies and use them to their own advantage. And ...