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The beautiful Serviceberry tree is a diminutive yet hardy specimen from the eastern US, loved for its flowers and foliage. It's these qualities that earn it its reputation as a tough urban tree.
Tucked away near Statesboro, Georgia, George L. Smith State Park offers a serene escape into nature, complete with kayaking, ...
Nestled in the heart of the Shawnee National Forest, Makanda, Illinois might be the most delightful town you’ve never heard ...
Tucked away in the embrace of the Shawnee National Forest sits Makanda, Illinois – a pocket-sized paradise that might be the ...
If you had planted a sugar maple seedling the year Tupelo native Kayla Clayborne Counts started volunteering with the ...
Beidler Forest in the Lowcountry is the largest uncut cypress-tupelo swamp in the world, with some trees that have been growing for more than a millennium, according to Audubon South Carolina. As ...
Blackgum, also called black tupelo, tupelo gum, or just tupelo, is a tree that loves to grow in water and water-soaked soils.
Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ensuring that the carbon is kept out of the air for longer ...
Kenyan fig trees can literally turn parts of themselves to stone, using microbes to convert internal crystals into limestone-like deposits that lock away carbon, sweeten surrounding soils, and ...
Learn about the ability of some fig trees to store atmospheric carbon dioxide and turn it into stone, a process that could push back against climate change.
The ingenious minds at Primitive Technology recreate a stone-age tool that surprisingly cuts trees faster than conventional axes.