When you've always known deciduous trees to drop their leaves in winter, seeing one that hasn't can be unsettling. Here's why trees may hold onto their leaves.

Sometimes by this time in February, the hellebores planted many years ago in a flower bed are showing buds, but that hasn’t ...

Because this is no ordinary forest ... This is especially significant since trees can store carbon in their wood for decades. Their leaves or roots, in contrast, decay more quickly and release ...

I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, and there between the buildings and the cars was a gorgeous aspen tree ...

it leaves behind a leaf scar. Most of the broad-leaved trees in the North shed their leaves in the fall. However, the dead brown leaves of the oaks and a few other species may stay on the tree until ...

In general, the data suggest that species that share traits such as strong roots or leaves ... no longer grow in those conditions. To get an idea, in the south of Catalonia we will not find beech ...

Learning to spot just a few of our most common trees, like the english oak, silver birch, or white willow, is great start. Here are the leaves of an english oak, for example… Image caption ...