Within a shrouded New Zealand forest, a tree stump keeps itself alive by holding onto the roots of its neighboring trees, exchanging water and resources through the grafted root system. New research, ...

If a tree falls in a forest, is it really dead? A peculiar tree stump in New Zealand is testing this question. Scientists found a tree stump of the species Agathis australis, known as the kauri tree, ...

A few weeks ago, members of the University’s Ecology Club visited a section of the Superior National Forest called Little Alfie, which is home to century-old red and white pines. On Wednesday, some of ...

In a rainforest near Auckland, New Zealand, a leafless kauri tree stump rises a few feet off the ground. These trees can become giants: The country’s biggest, Tāne Mahuta, or the “Lord of the Forest,” ...

Sebastian Leuzinger receives funding from The Royal Society. Martin Karl-Friedrich Bader does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

Tree stumps on several roads have become an eyesore and a hazard for pedestrians across the city. The Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) Forest Department lacks the personnel, machinery, and time to ...

LOGAN, W.Va. (WCHS) — On Thursday night, first responders with the Logan Fire Department were trying to keep a forest fire from getting to homes along Lewis Lawson Branch Road. While doing this, ...

Simplicity, Va. — A 69-year-old Virginia woman who went missing last week was found alive Monday in a dense pine forest less than a mile from her home, the local sheriff announced. The search for ...

Perhaps you’ve wandered through a forest or strolled into a neighborhood park and found tree trunks — and wondered if counting the rings on a trunk is truly a way to know the tree's age. "Most of us ...