You’re reading Fault Lines, Jay Caspian Kang’s weekly column on politics and the media. If you never have to explain yourself, you can’t really ever be wrong. In recent decades, few things have been ...

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — You may have read about this viral story online – a warning to be wary of “exploding trees”. But is it really something to be concerned about? While there is some science explaining ...

3 Easy—And Practically Free—Hacks for Hanging Ornaments That Will Take Your Tree to the Next Level How much are real Christmas trees? We share the Christmas tree prices below, along with expert tips ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

Why it's incredible: Pando looks like a forest, but it's actually one giant tree. Pando is an ancient quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) with 47,000 genetically identical stems, or tree trunks, ...

Your favorite football team was named after Ohio’s state tree, known as the Ohio buckeye tree. Now that fall has arrived, the husks have started falling from trees to reveal a brown one-eyed nut, ...

Living in a tree-filled neighborhood may be as beneficial to the heart as regular exercise, new research shows. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related. We know this because of a biological tool called the tree of life. This "tree" takes the form of a diagram that maps the relationships ...

When you walk through a forest, it may feel like a static setting where very little is happening. But trees are constantly interacting and reacting to each other as they grow. There’s intense ...