In a few idyllic parts of Queensland grows the idiot fruit, a tall tree with intricate flowers and some of the largest seeds in Australia.

Parks are doing what they can to keep the nation’s natural treasures safe for future generations — and out of your car's trunk.

First came the trees. In the town of Salamanca, Spain, the photographer noticed how distinctive a grove of oak trees looked after being pruned. Next came the galaxy.

Tree cover loss in the tropics was outweighed by tree cover gain in subtropical, temperate, boreal, and polar regions.

Most of the edible plants in the rainforest were planted by humans over 4500 years ago, new study finds. Modern farmers should look to these ancient forest gardeners for the key to sustainable food production.

The Bunya pine is a unique and majestic Australian tree that commands respect.

Earth is panting as soil struggles to keep up with climate change.

Ever wonder what Michigan looked like before logging? Here's your chance.

Never surrender.

Ernesto Benavides hangs out of choppers to document the devastation of Peru's rainforest.

The urgent question: Can government agents finally prove that enough trees come from illegal logging sites in Peru to stop shipments into the US?

The plan is for 50 million new trees to repopulate one of the least wooded parts of the country—and offer a natural escape from several cities in the north.

Darius Kinsey documented turn of the century tree cutters in all their gritty glory

Compressing wood and removing some of its polymers can increase its strength by more than a factor of ten.

Forest and tree cover in India has increased by nearly 1% since 2015 to 802,088 sq.km or about 24.39% of the country’s total geographical area (GA), shows a report released by the environment ministry on Monday. In a worrying trend, however, the report shows that forests in most of the biodiversity-rich north-eastern part of the country have been contracting continuously over the last few years.

A 500-year-old oak tree outside the town of Eutin, Germany, has been matching singles for more than a century and is reportedly responsible for 100-plus marriages.

Europe's highest court looks set to rule against what environmentalists see as an attack by Poland's nationalist government on the continent's oldest forest. By Ruby Russell.

According to a genetic analysis of almost 60 varieties of citrus fruits

It's clinging to life drip-by-drip.

Mature trees at Ziarat in Balochistan are often thousands of years old, but many end up as firewood.

Peru is one of 17 "megadiverse" countries on Earth, which together contain 70 percent of the world's biodiversity, according to the UN's environmental agency. The Peruvian Amazon lost nearly two million hectares of forest between 2001 and 2016, or more than 123,000 hectares a year, figures made public Tuesday by the ministry of the environment.

Around 1,500 years ago, shortly after the collapse of the Roman Empire, a baobab tree started growing in what is now Namibia. The San people would eventually name the tree Homasi, and others would call it Grootboom, after the Afrikaans words for “big tree.” As new empires rose and fell, Homasi continued growing. As humans invented paper money, printing presses, cars, and computers, Homasi sprouted new twigs, branches, and even stems, becoming a five-trunked behemoth with a height of 32 meters and a girth to match.

Anyone who ever wanted to have a small tree house in their backyard will be totally amazed by this massive construction, The World's Biggest Tree House, locat…

As the US Department of Agriculture considers whether to authorize the unrestricted planting of genetically engineered Eucalyptus trees experts are warning that such a policy would not only be unnatural, but negatively impact the environment.

Acacia nectar makes ants chemically dependent on the sugar of the same trees that they guard.

The world lost the trees on some 2.3 million square kilometers (0.9 million square miles) of land, while trees grew back or were planted on roughly 0.8 million sq km.

Welcome to the world of Tree Camping. A fast-growing adventure that, if you can believe, has been tracked all the way from beautiful California across the world to Japan, South Africa, and many other countries.

An ancient forest has thawed from under a melting glacier in Alaska and is now exposed to the world for the first time in more than 1,000 years.

Every year just before Christmas we all ask ourselves: “Should I get a real tree this year or should I get an artificial one?”. Some people think that Christmas is nothing without a real tree that smells like winter and has a magical presence and what not. Others, however, think that an artificial tree is more practical. The truth is that each of these two options comes with pros and cons. To make it easier for you to make a decision this year, we’re going to analyze them all.

By: tahomus — Wednesday December 4, 2013 — West Shore, Lake Tahoe, CA

Arizonans have built more than 200,000 homes deep into forestry wildlands, creating risks for themselves and the firefighters called upon to save them.

One tree, four years of work and an indescribable amount of talent: that’s what it took to create this incredible masterpiece. A famous Chinese wood carver chopped down a single tree and tirelessly worked on it for over four years to make this piece. Your jaw will hit the floor when you see what he created.

Nature's beauty can't be beat, but at least it can be captured.

In Borneo's Danum Valley — one of the last, untouched forest reserves in a region ravaged by logging and oil palm cultivation — a team of international and Malaysian scientists is fighting to preserve an area of stunning biodiversity