Some aspects of choosing a live Christmas tree, like shape, color, and aroma, are subjective. But certain Christmas tree species are better at keeping their needles and holding ornaments. Two ...

Spruce trees retain ancient memories of their environment and communicate with one other in the hours preceding a solar eclipse, a new international study suggests. "We now see the forest not as a ...

ON THE KOBUK RIVER — It’s been a rainy fall. Again today the clouds are low, mist fills the air and raindrops pelt the windows. Water drips off tree branches. Down the hill through the wet grasses and ...

A potentially devastating disease epidemic is attacking our region's most common evergreen trees. Colorado, Black Hills and Norway spruce have long been planted in yards and shelterbelts. Most of the ...

Spruce trees provide two types of food; cones like this one that contain seeds for birds to eat and needles that caterpillars eat. / BILL DANIELSON / For the Gazette Sign up for the Gazette's morning ...

Gigantic glistening snowflakes gently tumbled from the gray sky to land on thick branches of the spruce outside the picture window. Although I had a long list of things to do, the swirling snowflakes ...

How trees fare under drought depends heavily on their past experiences. In some cases, adversity breeds resilience: Spruce trees that experience long-term droughts are more resistant to future ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Real Christmas trees aren't for everyone. While it's fun to cut down a fir, it's not necessarily easy.

An Ashland reader recently noticed some curious little, almost lantern-like attachment appearing on her spruce. At first glance, these little cocoons looked like little lanterns in her evergreen.

Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years. He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained newborn red squirrel ...

Spruce bark beetles don’t just tolerate their host tree’s chemical defenses—they actively reshape them into stronger ...

Anywhere else in the world, more trees would be a blessing. But in the far north of Alaska, they’re a reckoning. As the Arctic warms up to four times as fast as the rest of the planet, white spruce ...