In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue ...

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost ...

Religious monuments in China have provided a refuge for ancient trees for thousands of years, including dozens of endangered ...

Spruce trees that experienced long-term droughts were more resistant to future ones, while pines acclimatized to wet periods were more vulnerable.

With wildfires turning forests into “massive carbon emitters,” planting trees in some places could inadvertently increase ...

Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the ...

Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more ...

Research finds diatoms evolved slowly for 100 million years and then experienced an evolutionary burst of speciation 170 million years ago.

Associate Professor Andres Holz helps lead study on trees and “green islands” that survive wildfires but die up to three years later.

A study in subtropical forests shows that dominant tree traits—not just species counts or terrain—drive productivity and ...