Researchers are studying whether Ginkgo biloba leaves might support weary leg veins and cut the risk of blood clots.

Often growing in rocky ground with acidic soil in the wild, this species doesn’t go summer-dormant the way the popular ...

According to ODF, the spruce aphid is "a long-established exotic and invasive insect" that can experience periodic outbreaks that hurt Sitka spruce trees along the West Coast and in Oregon.

Timeless though art may be, The Works Art & Design Festival is in the midst of a banner year: the Big 4-0 — and a celebration of life on Earth itself.

They used plastic roofs erected above about half of 100 Norway spruce (Picea abies) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica) trees to keep out the summer rainfall, creating a five-year drought.

Jun. 2—A government-funded campaign has begun spraying insecticides and biological agents on 240,000 acres of Maine's North Woods infested with spruce budworm, a voracious forest pest that ...

Maine tree spraying will kill any caterpillars, not just forest pests While not toxic to people or most animals, pesticides to protect spruce and fir trees against budworm could also hurt the ...

A new U of A study shows how white spruce trees and fungi team up to survive and ward off attacks from the spruce budworm—an alliance that could point to ways to boost the resilience of forests ...

Fallen dragon’s blood trees lie scattered across the ground, stark evidence of the environmental pressures threatening Socotra’s endemic flora. Experts warn that without conservation efforts ...

But storms aren’t the only threat. Unlike pine or oak trees, which grow 60 to 90 centimetres per year, dragon’s blood trees creep along at just 2 to 3 centimetres annually.

MEDINA, Minn. — A line of severe storms that swept through Minnesota and Wisconsin on Thursday took down countless trees. But for one Minnesota family, the loss of a white spruce was too big to ...

Trying to grow grass under a spruce tree is problematic for a few reasons. Firstly, the spruce, with its extensive root system, is very good at sucking up every last bit of moisture in the area ...