The ancestry of Tolkien's ranger-turned-king can be traced back to the earliest days of Middle-earth. Here's a detailed ...

The 'Tree of Robots' from the Technical University of Munich classifies robots by sensitivity, aiming for a new safety and ...

In Nevada's Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, the search is on for the most perfect tree of the many millions growing in the ...

The remains of a famous sycamore tree, which stood on Britain’s Roman-built Hadrian’s Wall in northern England for more than ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

Vessels in a tree’s xylem transport water from the roots to the rest of the plant. Hardwood tree species tend to have large vessels. This gives hardwood floorboards a coarser-grained and less uniform ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have analyzed 96 years of forest census data to better understand ...

The iconic tree was illegally chopped down in September 2023, but its memory will live on in the form of a new art ...

Young girl dies and another is 'very seriously' ill after tree collapses in Southend A witness has described hearing a "horrendous, screeching scream" and how 40 to 50 people tried to lift the ...

The Beatles’ cedar tree in Chiswick, which is around 300 years old, was nominated given that the band perched on one of its low-swooping boughs in a video for their song Rain in 1966.

A cedar tree climbed by The Beatles, an oak that may have inspired Virginia Woolf, and a lime representing peace in Northern Ireland are among those shortlisted for Tree of the Year 2025.

A seven-year-old child has died and a six-year-old is critically injured after a tree collapsed in a park in Southend-on-Sea. Essex Police said investigations were continuing at Chalkwell Park ...