HUANGSHAN, China — As temperatures neared their midday peak, Hu Xiaosong was doing his regular patrol, at an altitude of more than 5,500 feet, to protect a 1,000-year-old pine tree that he says is ...

The world's oldest longleaf pine tree is at the Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve in Southern Pines. Experts studied its rings and have determined the tree to be 478 years old. Each spring, the ...

The damage from this past winter’s cold weather is still on our minds. The past two weeks, the volunteer Master Gardeners at the UF/IFAS Duval County Extension Office have fielded numerous phone calls ...

Thu., May 14, 2026 This year has been a good one for falling ponderosa pine cones. The trees are responding to the drought conditions we have been facing the last few years. However, picking up these ...

If you have been surrounded by the sight and smell of pine trees, you may have taken a closer look at the needles and then wondered how their properties are influenced by rainfall. Researchers are ...

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner listens to a question from the audience at a campaign town hall meeting on Oct. 22, 2025, in Ogunquit. Credit: Brian Snyder / Reuters A political action ...

The bristlecone pine tree is the world's oldest living non-clonal organism. This one grows in California's White Mountains. (Kat Kerlin/UC Davis) What can the world’s longest living individual teach ...

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In the summer of 1929, Georgia O’Keeffe discovered New Mexico. Although she had already received a good deal of acclaim, O’Keeffe had begun to feel oppressed by her life in New York with her husband, ...

In 2002, Crater Lake National Park ecologist Michael Murray thought the park’s majestic whitebark pine trees were as good as gone. An invasive fungus called white pine blister rust was killing the ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane's urban forest is facing a significant challenge due to a pine bark beetle outbreak, which has resulted in the removal of at least 200 Ponderosa trees. Urban Forester Katie ...

GRAYLING, MI - The largest stand of old growth pine trees remaining in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula is the result of a recession. Hartwick Pines State Park in Grayling is home to this 49-acre forest ...