As climate change drives more frequent and severe wildfires across boreal forests in Alaska and northwestern Canada, ...

Fire is a hot topic these days, particularly when it comes to the boreal forest, the vast expanse of trees that stretches across Alaska, Canada and other cold northern regions. Large fires have been ...

More severe and frequent fires in the Alaskan boreal forest are emitting vast stores of carbon, but new research from shows those losses are offset by the fast-growing deciduous trees that replace ...

The dark foliage of conifer trees dominates much of our landscape. It gets to be a bit overwhelming at times, so I’m always glad when spring leaf-out brings fresh, bright greens of the deciduous tree ...

What happens when trees lose their leaves in autumn and remain bare throughout the winter? Are the trees still alive? Deciduous trees survive winter through a process similar to hibernation, called ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Opposite leaves are just what they sound like: the leaves, whether simple or ...

Goetze: An interesting tree of our Rolling Plains region is native to Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma and has close relatives ...

Just because it's winter doesn't mean there aren't any gardening tasks to take care of in your yard. This type of tree is ...