Trees are essential to life on Earth. They support ecosystems, store carbon, provide clean water, improve our health, and ...

THE tree that killed a seven-year-old girl was propped up by metal bars for years and was a known danger, locals have said.

By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most awe-inspiring classes of animal.

Imagine the tree of life. The tip of every branch represents one species, and if you follow any two branches back through time, you'll hit an intersection. If you keep going back in time, you'll ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Wageningen University researchers modeled climate responses of over 32,000 tree species under global warming scenarios.

A team co-led by a Purdue University researcher has found that groups of fungi influence global tree species in distinct ways ...

All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related. We know this because of a biological tool called the tree of life. This "tree" takes the form of a diagram that maps the relationships ...

Calling something the “tree of life” may conjure up a lush arboreal species with mouth-watering fruit.. Yet on the African continent, this moniker is reserved for the baobab tree. Upon first ...

In South America, which is home to the Amazon Rainforest, 3,356 out of the 13,668 assessed tree species are at risk of extinction due to deforestation for crop farming and livestock ranching.

Scientists Mapped the Evolution of 11,000 Bird Species to Build the Avian Tree of Life By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth ...