A simple blue stain could force trees into giving up their memories of cold summers and volcanic winters, a recent study reveals, giving researchers a new way to precisely reconstruct ancient climates ...

Since trees and shrubs can live for hundreds of years, identifying these blue rings allows us to spot cold summers in the past. By looking at pine trees and juniper shrubs from northern Norway ...

Bugs like mites, aphids, or even pine beetles can wreak havoc on your trees and shrubs, causing the needles to brown. There's ...

A row of pine trees dating to the ‘70s has been cut down at the Benton County Fairgrounds, sacrificed along with grass and shrubs to accommodate about 370 new parking spots at the main entrance.

Through the years, I have often been asked what is your favorite season to be in the woods? I always respond the fall when I ...

Buchwal's team analyzed samples from 25 Scots pine trees and 54 juniper shrubs, staining and photographing their growth rings under a microscope. The study revealed that blue rings were more ...

Overall, only 2.1% of the pine trees' rings and 1.3% of the juniper shrubs' rings were blue; the cells which hadn't lignified properly were mainly found at the end of growth rings, in latewood ...