“What trees do in their own quiet way is allow us to think about scale,” writes Verlyn Klinkenborg in the introduction to “Wise Trees” (Abrams, $40). “In our world, we’re dwarfed, outlasted, even ...

Landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel spent more than two years traveling the world to discover its most remarkable trees. These are not only trees that are the biggest or oldest, ...

It’s something that’s in the news a lot these days: Water-wise landscaping. But what exactly does that mean for San Diegans and how do you know what plants will work for this kind of gardening?

A tree fell and crushed a car on a road in Northwest D.C. Saturday evening. The incident happened at Wise Road near Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park at about 7:50 p.m. A person was taken to the hospital ...

Trees are prodigious drinkers. Factors such as temperature, humidity and wind can dramatically influence intake, but scientists have estimated that on a warm, dry summer day, a mature oak could drink ...

Not long ago, two Americans caused a scene in a Mozambique village. Locals were mystified by the tourists spending several days photographing a single tree. "Sometimes we have to explain to people ...

A meteorologist can track a storm today using satellite or pulse-Doppler radar data. A weather historian can track a storm from a century ago using records—watching it crawl across the plains through ...

Blackie was a dog who lived in Kodaikanal, a hill station in the Western Ghats. She went missing a year ago. She was a very pleasant dog but would bark her head off at any hint of intrusion. And she ...

MOORHEAD — Some trees in the food forest in MB Johnson Park have started producing fruit with many expected to be ready to harvest in the months ahead. Trent Wise, Moorhead city forester, said he is ...

When talking with people about trees in their yards, one of the questions that I often get asked concerns adding, or removing, dirt right around trees or in their root zones. For instance, I remember ...