April is World Habitat Awareness Month, so today we look at Torrey pines, the rarest native pine in the U.S. The Torrey pine ...

Thomas Pakenham has spent the past four years looking at old trees in every corner of the globe. His favorite? Well, he loves the tulip poplar that George Washington planted at Mount Vernon, but he is ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The tree species known only as Pennantia ...

Introduction -- Trees and their ecosystems. Tropical rainforests ; Tropical cloud forests ; Tropical dry forests ; Temperate and boreal forests ; Islands -- Trees and their uses. Medicine, poisons, ...