Garden experts share their favorite conifer tree species as well as the best tips for growing conifers in your backyard.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A house and yard with a blooming dogwood tree in the foreground. As you approach spring landscaping chores, you might be ...

Planting forests with diverse species can help ensure their success, according to a new study published May 18 from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and The Nature Conservancy. The ...

Researchers have found almost identical patterns of tree diversity across the world's tropical forests. The study of over one million trees across 1,568 locations found that just 2.2% of tree species ...

Forests don't move quickly. A tree that took root a century ago has weathered droughts, storms, and pest outbreaks that would have knocked out lesser organisms. But the pace of warming now unfolding ...

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Non-native forest tree species can reduce native species diversity if they are planted in uniform stands. In contrast, the effects of introduced species on soil properties are small. This was found by ...

Near infrared hyperspectral imaging (NIR-HSI) spectroscopy can be a rapid, precise, low-cost and non-destructive way for wood identification. In this study, samples of five Guiboutia species were ...