Scientists chasing thunderstorms in a retrofitted minivan finally captured something never seen before in nature: faint ...

Forests provide myriad benefits, including timber, wildlife attraction, local cooling and climate resilience. At the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tree branches in art throughout history follow geometric rules related to fractal geometry. 'Almond blossom' by Vincent van Gogh.

Lightning is one of nature's most destructive forces, responsible for killing millions of trees every year. But in the rainforests of Panama, one species has flipped that danger into a powerful ...

From New Mexico’s wildfire recovery greenhouses to Midwest and East Coast urban forestry initiatives, U.S. communities are scaling up tree planting and care. These efforts coincide with new Amazon ...

In a groundbreaking discovery in Brunei, scientists have found two-million-year-old fossils of Dryobalanops rappa—an endangered tropical tree that still lives today. The find marks the first fossil ...

As the effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August of 1945 proved to be devastating enough to convince scientists that ...

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...