Scientists have discovered that plant leaves emit hidden sugar signals when extreme heat disrupts their metabolism.

A new study reveals oak trees delay sprouting leaves by 3 days to avoid being infested by hungry caterpillars, after it happened last year.

Climate change has an effect on forests and trees. They suffer from heat waves and periods of drought. But although we see tree mortality increase as a result, much is still unknown about the ...

Beech Leaf Disease is spreading around the Northeast and the microscopic worms that come with it are attacking trees in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Arborists have been working on a potential ...

Researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Extension Experiment Station have reported a few methods of treatment for beech ...

Brown leaf: Dark bands may remain visible on affected leaves during winter. Photo courtesy of Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Forestry. (L); Withered leaves: Thick bands of leaf tissue may turn ...

News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper attribution, as part of news coverage of this paper only. Relationships between tree diversity and species richness of herbivores (a) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For broad-leaved trees like the holm oak, which grows in Mediterranean climates with dry summers and rainy winters, this seasonal ...

Every spring across Europe, billions of oak leafroller moth caterpillars hatch on oak branches and immediately start chewing. Their survival depends on perfect timing: the larvae must emerge just as ...

Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change ...