The rubber tree, scientifically known as Hevea brasiliensis, plays a crucial role in both ecosystems and human industry. Originating from the Amazon rainforest, this tree has become globally ...

The world’s largest tree has been rigorously dated for the first time, confirming it is at least 16,000 years old. Named Pando, the tree is a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) with around ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed ...

CLIMATEWIRE | More than a third of the world’s tree species are at risk of extinction, according to findings by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The group said that its first ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Six U.S. Navy and Japanese doctors and nurses on Tuesday peered down at a bloody bone protruding from a patient’s left hip on an operating table in a warehouse at this ...

A large and very strong Typhoon Kong-rey, also known as Typhoon No. 21 in Japan, is intensifying while moving northward toward Okinawa Prefecture in the southwest on October 30. On October 31, the ...

As part of that update, the group also published the first Global Tree Assessment, a comprehensive worldwide study involving more than 1,000 tree experts. Scientists assessed more than 80 percent ...

More than a third of all tree species worldwide face extinction, threatening ecosystems, plants, animals and economies around the world, experts warned Monday. In all, 38% of trees are at risk ...