Scientists chasing thunderstorms in a retrofitted minivan finally captured something never seen before in nature: faint ...

Climate change is already making a small proportion of tropical tree leaves so hot that their photosynthetic machinery bakes and breaks, according to new research. Although only a small proportion of ...

You may have noticed recently that some trees around the city are starting to change colors or maybe you've even seen some leaves on the ground. Trees use their leaves (and sometimes their bark) to ...

News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper attribution, as part of news coverage of this paper only. Relationships between tree diversity and species richness of herbivores (a) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is a maple tree that still has a few dead leaves on it during winter. - Marcia Straub/Getty Images The sound of the wind ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Leaf shapes play an important role in tree identification, providing key ...