This is the story of a tree. An Eastern Cottonwood soaring 108 feet high, stretching its arms across three yards and anchoring the entire street. It was a defining feature of its St. Paul, Minn., ...

Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.

By Howard Whiteman Murray State University They are seemingly everywhere these days. Driving on the highway, along the edges ...

Like the branches, twigs and leaves of a tree, fractals repeat the same patterns across different scales. Snowflakes, lightning bolts and human blood vessels are also fractal structures ...

78v.) Leonardo da Vinci observed that tree limbs preserve their thickness as they branch. The Italian Renaissance artist used a parameter called α to determine the relationships between the ...

Cardinal Kurt Koch, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, reflected Tuesday on the great challenge of illness and suffering for Pope Francis as he approaches a month ...

A couple were taken to hospital on Tuesday night after being hit by a tree branch that fell onto their Aberfoyle Park driveway. It came a day after two WOMAD festival-goers were injured when a ...

The SES is urging people to be vigilant of the risk posed by tree limbs suffering from heat stress after a particularly hot summer. South Australians are being warned to take care near trees after ...

It takes a chainsaw to cut a tree, whether you’re bringing it down, breaking down firewood, or even trimming large branches. Looking at a healthy, mature tree, though, some of the branches that ...