Before you add soil, mow over roots, or try to grow grass beneath a tree, learn which fixes help—and which can harm.

Silent observers of our lives, trees are on most peoples’ radar only at moments of transition or death: We mark springtime’s budding and autumn’s flamboyance, note somberly the tree felled by a storm ...

“When I look at a tree, especially an old tree ... It makes me feel like everything’s gonna be okay,” Drake says of his passion Drake’s fascination with trees began after he spotted a familiar-looking ...

These organisms have played an important role in how our world was shaped, and they can even record history. Here are some interesting facts about trees. 1. I think that I shall never see an organism ...

The woods I know best, love best, are made of Northern hardwoods, sugar maple and white ash, timber-tall; black and yellow birch, tiger-skinned; seedlings and saplings of blighted beech and striped ...

Few things are as rejuvenating as a walk through a quiet glade of trees. This seems like a good time to take a break and take a stroll through nature. Before you step out, though, enjoy this ...

What are your trees trying to tell you?

Every year between September and December, Lubna Dada makes clouds. Dada, an atmospheric scientist, convenes with dozens of her colleagues to run experiments in a 7,000-gallon stainless steel chamber ...

This spring, as the trees in my backyard began sprouting lush green leaves, one big, beautiful oak remained bare and brown—it was dead. That meant it needed to be cut down—and soon, before it toppled ...

One cold afternoon in the autumn of 2018, in a forest outside the tiny village of Hümmel, in Rhineland-Palatinate, I went for a walk with the German forester Peter Wohlleben. He’s a tall man with a ...