Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deciduous and coniferous trees line a pathway. - FotoCrafte/Shutterstock In elementary school, most of us learned the basic ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The disease attacks both hardwoods and softwoods and can kill shrubs, vines, ...

The exact science of tree sap transport has puzzled plant physiologists for many years. Sap's migration throughout tree trunks and branches is linked heavily to transpiration, the movement and ...

Dramatic shifts in the planet's climate and geography over millions of years changed the course of evolutionary history for conifer trees, according to new research. Dramatic shifts in the planet's ...

Whirling seeds are produced by many plants today, such as maples, but the first to try them were the conifers 270 million years ago. Fossils reveal that those early conifers had winged seeds of ...

Can animals share the same space peacefully high above the ground in the treetops? A research team at the University of Göttingen has found that forests combining both deciduous and conifer trees make ...

When a wildfire is tearing through a conifer forest, the assumption is usually that trees are simply fuel, more vegetation ...

Get started growing evergreens from seed! Conifers don’t grow easily, but with a little patience you can learn how to grow evergreen trees from seeds in your own backyard. We’ve all heard the old ...

In elementary school, most of us learned the basic differences between deciduous and coniferous trees. Deciduous trees have leaves that change color and drop in the fall, and coniferous trees have ...