A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), finds that black spruce trees — a key species on the boreal landscape for millennia — are losing their resilience ...

Anywhere else in the world, more trees would be a blessing. But in the far north of Alaska, they’re a reckoning. As the Arctic warms up to four times as fast as the rest of the planet, white spruce ...

We were pushing through head-high willows along a brushy caribou trail, five days into our week-long trek across Alaska's Noatak valley, when my hiking partner, Brad Meiklejohn, startled me with a ...

Gigantic glistening snowflakes gently tumbled from the gray sky to land on thick branches of the spruce outside the picture window. Although I had a long list of things to do, the swirling snowflakes ...

Loveland’s tree streets include 22 streets named for trees in the Pine Family. The family includes 234 species worldwide and they separate into nine groups: cedars, Douglas-firs, firs, golden-larch, ...

Q: I have always loved the look of blue spruce, and I see many Maryland nurseries stocking them. I’ve heard that I should consider alternatives. Why? A: Every plant has something it can be vulnerable ...