As Forest Park recovers from last May's devastating tornado, the loss of mature trees offers a chance to reimagine the ...

Soil microbes remain highly active beneath winter snow, driving complex nitrogen recycling that fuels spring plant growth.

I know what you have seen in the news these last few days. Trees, and lots of them causing damage during this winter storm. I ...

Each sectioned-off research area, like the one above, has 21 to 24 individual trees, with two-and-half miles of cable laid underneath the artificially heated zones. Since trees take in and use carbon ...

MINNESOTA, USA — Tree lovers hate how hard it is to be optimistic right now. Lee Frelich is the Director of the Center for Forest Ecology at the University of Minnesota. He admits that studying the ...

Shoveling in single-digit temperatures after the colossal winter storm this weekend, I dumped mounds of snow onto my garden beds, knowing it would protect my trees, shrubs and dormant perennials. When ...

Anywhere else in the world, more trees would be a blessing. But in the far north of Alaska, they’re a reckoning. As the Arctic warms up to four times as fast as the rest of the planet, white spruce ...

When temperatures drop suddenly, trapped water can freeze and expand, splitting trunks with a gunshot-like sound During the recent cold spell in the northern US, meteorologists issued warnings about ...

Learn the science behind "exploding trees," why extreme cold causes frost cracks and which species are most at risk.