Elevated high above the ground, tree houses are familiar symbols of childhood magic and adventure. Architect Peter Eising remembers how they captured his imagination as a child. He would scavenge for ...

Cut into the trunk of a pine tree, and you will see a familiar series of concentric rings, each corresponding to a season of growth. But not all stumps tell the same story. A study published in ...

A master gardener recently told me not to purchase trees with narrow angled crotches. Can you tell me what this means and why I should avoid them? Now that our trees have lost all of their leaves, it ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pollarded willow tree - Thierry Hebbelinck/Getty Images Trees undoubtedly go through a number of changes, some of which are ...

Wood is becoming an increasingly popular building material, but the timber is harvested mainly just from the long, straight trunks of trees. Aiming to reduce waste, an MIT team has developed a method ...

In July 2017, an image made its way across social media, purporting to be an ancient, petrified trunk of what was once a huge, atavistic tree: This photograph is one of many purportedly showing giant ...