Big trees play an outsized role in old-growth forests—from offering fire resistance to producing strong genetic offspring, big trees give forests multiple ecological advantages. New research gives ...

Large trees offer major solutions to the climate and biodiversity crisis that are needed now. As President Biden calls for protecting mature and old growth trees on Federal lands, the study describes ...

The death of these giants would have a major impact on the forest, but because they are few and far between, almost nothing is known about what causes them to die Elisabeth King The purple-flowered ...

Trees can often appear as little more than verdant wallpaper, a fuzzy green background for humans’ comings and goings. But governments and nonprofit organizations worldwide are now talking up trees as ...

Students squinting along a sunny stretch of sidewalk outside the Roanoke College library find a moment of cool refuge beneath the leafy shade of an old, but steady-growing champion. A Dutch elm tree ...

Michigan has new champion American basswood, eastern cottonwood and sugar maple trees. Thanks to two programs that hunt for and catalog the state’s biggest trees, these specimens – which are ...

Searching for the “Big Trees of Schuylkill County” is a project of the Schuylkill County Conservancy. The intent of the project is to engage citizens to join the Conservancy and take action to protect ...

No one is really certain when the massive tree tucked deep in the Tushar Mountains first took root or who was the first to stumble upon it. It’s also not clear what allowed that specific pine to grow ...

Tropical trees may grow to be more than 250 feet (77 meters) tall. Note person in red on the forest floor, below. Credit: Evan Gora, STRI Giant trees in tropical forests, witnesses to centuries of ...