A UC Davis professor's pleasure hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the ...

UC Davis professor Hugh Safford found the highest living tree in California on a recent hike through the High Sierra.

It made perfect sense for Douglass Jacobs, Fred M. van Eck Professor of Forest Biology and member of Purdue’s Institute for ...

Amid a hospitality landscape in which many hotels have moved far beyond single-use plastics, how does the Populus in Denver measure up?

For thousands of years, millions of monarch butterflies have migrated from the northern U.S. and Canada to Mexico for the winter. But exactly how they know where to go is still a mystery.

The high concentration of pine forest in North Gyeongsang ... Furthermore, pine trees retain their needles throughout winter, making them susceptible to "crown fires" - wildfires that spread ...

Monarchs traveled to a remote part of Mexico, a journey they've made for thousands of years, and wintered there. Now tens of millions of the butterflies are on an epic aerial journey back north.

As long as there have been forests, there have been natural events that change them. To understand the effects of the recent ice storm, it may help to review forest form and function. Forests are ...

The region's prolonged drought has created a flammable landscape heading into the state's peak season for blazes.

I picked up a road burrito at Alpha Coffee and headed up Little Cottonwood Canyon. Earth Day is coming Tuesday, April 22, but Alta Ski Area always gets into the action early. And what better a place ...

Seminole, Orange and Volusia Counties put burn bans in place this week because of the dryness of the soil. No significant ...