Browsing: trees

The pair of subtropical grapefruit trees have stood, slightly incongruously, on a street in south-west London for 40-odd years since Marline Anderson brought them over from…

A new study finds that lightning kills some 320 million trees around the world each year, more than was previously thought. And that figure could rise…

If the mindless felling of the Sycamore Gap tree has taught us anything, it is that there is no such thing as “just a tree”, as…

To the untrained eye, Monks Wood looks healthy and lush in the summer sun. Hundreds of butterflies dance on the edge of footpaths in the ancient…

From New York to Paris to Beijing, urban trees are enjoying an extra-long growing season, a new study finds.The reason, researchers say, is that trees take…

For millennia, the summer solstice has marked a pivotal moment in the human calendar – a turning point steeped in mythology, when the oak king is…

How green is this? We pay billions of pounds to cut down ancient forests in the US and Canada, ship the wood across the Atlantic in…