Two Reston sycamore trees at Lake Anne Village Center appear to be a concern to certain people, but for three different reasons. Their unease involves Reston's flagship characteristics, its tree ...

A Brighton, England, landowner has been fined £4,000 after damaging the roots of two protected sycamore trees so severely that they had to be cut down — all to make room for a more profitable ...

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a series of resolutions on Harmony with Nature, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has issued an advisory opinion stating that environmental ...

A Maryland program to spot and document its biggest trees started a century ago. John Bennett is the man who keeps the ...

Multiple planning applications were submitted to Northumberland County Council this week, including a range of proposals from home extensions ...

A new study revealed certain plants grow "secret" deep root systems to survive tough conditions and quietly trap carbon ...

Plants and trees send their roots into the ground to soak up water and nutrients from the soil. Until now, scientists ...

Another big no-no. Trees simply grow healthier when their planters understand their root systems. Here are several tree root myths that may change—improve, rather—the way you plant.

An average maturing tree under optimal conditions can transport up to 10,000 gallons of water only to capture about 1,000 usable gallons for the production of food and adding to its biomass.

Its fruit are inedible. When dried, the mature fruit’s hard shells can be made into musical instruments and other receptacles. The tree is grown in local parks and gardens as an ornamental plant.

The Sycamore Gap tree was a relative newcomer. It was planted around 150 years ago, in a small gully where the Roman wall follows the groove of the Pennine hills, otherwise surrounded by stark ...