Gardeners looking to add beauty — and purpose — to their landscapes have a chance to do both this spring as the Native Plant Society of Texas Tonkawa Chapter launches ...

Arborists and land managers are trying “assisted migration” as global warming threatens livability in communities and the health of urban and rural forests.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ice coats trees in Austin during a past winter freeze. (Andrea Ball/Staff) Many Americans are suddenly concerned about "exploding ...

HOUSTON — The Texas A&M Forest Service is telling residents to stay alert for a potentially dangerous winter weather phenomenon: "exploding" trees. In a social media post, the agency explained that ...

What if New England trees could produce a culinary oil on par with olive oil? What if they already do – except practically no one knows it? Local producers and foresters are working to put homegrown ...

An interesting tree of our Rolling Plains region is endemic to Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma and has close relatives occurring as far north in the Great Plains as Minnesota and eastern North Dakota.

More than two dozen species of oak are native to North Carolina. But with a quick glance and some context clues, Luke Ferreira and Spencer Cain can identify pretty much all of them. Not to mention ...

Some Houston Christmas trees will find new life as mulch and compost for local parks once the tinsel comes down. The Houston Solid Waste Management Department's annual recycling program for natural ...

When it’s Christmas time in Texas, as George Strait once sang, we’ll be swingin’ around the Christmas tree. In his hit holiday single, When It’s Christmas Time in Texas, Strait delves into what this ...

We spend a lot of time puzzling over our shade tree selections. Too often we settle on a green giant that ends up towering over our entire landscape, casting shade wherever it grows. In many cases ...