Knowing just a few key tree biology facts and guidelines when working around trees goes a long way to keep trees healthy. Two ...

This is an easy to make low cost vegetable garden trellis made from reo concrete mesh and bent over on the end to make a tunnel covered with bird netting on top with two long slim raised beds. This ...

Achieve fuller houseplants with this simple trick that encourages them to put out new growth. It requires nothing but a knife ...

Niagara County’s nature lovers may remember when forests were adrift with blooming native trilliums in early May. Those local trails of trilliums are fewer and farther between. Conservationists have ...

Scientists made fake leaves and dropped them in water tanks to observe how different shapes move as they sink.

Norm Geisinger is 82 years old, and he owns an 85-year-old bonsai tree that’s less than two feet tall. He’s owned the Lace-bark Chinese elm for 25 years. He’s the third owner.

The longer, warmer days of spring spark phenological changes in trees, from root to tip. As the limbs of trees stretch and ...

On May 5, the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management continued its Bren Seminar series with Postdoctoral Researcher Julie Edwards. Edwards’ lecture “Climate Change Detection and Attribution ...

Quebec tree rings dating back nearly 200 years indicate ... This research, he says, underlines another important reason to preserve old-growth forests. “They are potentially these natural ...

Because tree rings tend to grow wider in warmer, wetter years and thinner in drier, colder years, they act as a record of natural climate variability and offer a complementary approach to model ...

found in tree growth rings, according to the statement. Carbon-14 is a naturally occurring radioactive variant of carbon, it forms in the atmosphere when cosmic radiation interacts with nitrogen.

So thicker rings signify abundant tree growth while thinner ones mean stunted growth. And because older rings remain at the centre of the tree trunk and newer ones near the periphery ...