Right next to one of the busiest cities in the world sits a forest with over 55,000 ancient trees. Some are hundreds of years old, surviving far longer than expected and in numbers that are hard to ...

The storied baobab trees of Madagascar aren't just a signature part of the nation's captivating landscape; they're windows ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Trees older than empires are not as rare as you might think ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a study in Nature Communications. It is the first time ...

Guy Joseph Guidry fondly remembers the moment he first encountered a bonsai tree, three decades ago. Guidry spotted a cluster of the miniature trees in his neighbor's backyard in New Orleans. They ...

In her book, "The Tree Collectors," writer and illustrator Amy Stewart recounts stories of people who harbor tree obsessions, ...

An over 300-year-old tree which inspired the cottage in the Brambly Hedge books, has been discovered in Epping Forest.The ...