In a new effort to save critically endangered plant life, conservationists diffused the first set of bred “dinosaur trees” ...

In the quiet reaches of California’s White Mountains, one tree has survived through 4,800 years of storms, droughts, empires, ...

One of the world's rarest trees—a prehistoric ‘dinosaur tree’—is bearing fruit for first time after couple planted it in ...

A 70-year-old pine tree was split right down the middle, from the top down to its roots. “I‘ll tell you that big ball of red led us to believe there was a fire, but no.” Luckily for Pat ...

UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford observed and recorded the tree in September 2024 during a casual hike. It is at 3,858 meters, or 12,657 feet elevation. The seedling was 6 years old and 10 inches tall.

In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the trees’ pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these landscapes in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain are open-canopied and sunny ...

Old-growth forests are rare – less than 7% of the area of U.S. forests today – and are still often logged. To recover forest ecosystems across the U.S., it will not be enough to protect just ...