Technically, the coconut is not a true nut. Although kukui nut is edible, it can create serious stomach issues when too many ...

Botanists surveying a remote forest reserve on Pemba Island in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago have discovered a forest of rare trees — the only place in Africa where they’re known to occur in the ...

Introduction -- Trees and their ecosystems. Tropical rainforests ; Tropical cloud forests ; Tropical dry forests ; Temperate and boreal forests ; Islands -- Trees and their uses. Medicine, poisons, ...

The Congo Basin, the world’s largest tropical rainforest after the Amazon, is under mounting pressure. The Congo’s vast green ...

Fall on the mainland is bright with deciduous trees changing to colors of red, orange and yellow before the leaves gently brown and drop to the ground. In Hawaii, it is the ripened red cherry of ...