Today it’s all about heart disease — heart disease in trees that is. Obviously, trees do not have hearts. Trees consist of a beautifully engineered material called wood, designed to combine strength ...

Throughout their lifetimes, healthy forests produce more oxygen than they use, while taking in greenhouse gases via plants and soils. This ecosystem-wide service, called carbon sequestration, ...

A common fungus that causes trees to rot may be exacerbating climate change by releasing more methane than expected.