UC Davis professor Hugh Safford found the highest living tree in California on a recent hike through the High Sierra.

Nature lovers need to go no further than the canopied campus of SUNY New Paltz to enjoy a rich variety of tree canopies, trunks, branches and blossoms getting ready to burst. There is a 1.5-mile ...

Sometimes we get sidetracked with bunnies and baskets at this time of year. But we can get beyond those to see the beauty and ...

If you think of New Jersey as highways and crowded beaches, prepare to be astonished. Tucked away in the heart of the state ...

Changing the definition of “harm” in the Endangered Species Act, as the Trump administration proposes, could overhaul the ESA ...

A critically endangered rare mammal species has been recolonising in Wiltshire, and they are being closely monitored. Pine martens are members of the weasel family and can be identified by their brown ...

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

The Jeffrey pine, one of the iconic trees of the Sierra Nevada, appears to have eclipsed other pines to become the ...

Scientist finds Jeffrey pine trees at record mountain heights, suggesting climate-driven shifts in Sierra Nevada.

Starting late this spring and continuing through the summer, the Bowdoin Pines, a small pine forest located on either side of Bath Road, will undergo upkeep and cultivation as part of the College’s ...

UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California's High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation ...

There are many other old-growth forests across the continent. Each of these forests has a unique ecology, but all are under ...