As the 2026 hurricane season proceeds and a strong El Niño disrupts weather patterns around the globe, the world’s trees will ...

Everyone photographs the redwoods and calls it a day. The actual oldest tree in California — quite possibly the oldest tree ...

The U.S. boasts a remarkable range of forests, from tropical hardwoods in Florida, blankets of evergreen firs and pines in the Pacific Northwest, to one of the oldest tree systems on Earth in Utah, ...

After 246 years, Pvt. John Pumphrey is unknown no more. Through DNA testing and old-fashioned sleuthing, the Maryland ...

Wondering where to find the world’s largest and oldest living trees in California? These 7 forests offer towering giants and ...

Until now, the oldest definitively verified amber came from the Late Carboniferous, about 320 million years ago. “Although amber is a unique repository of environmental, diagenetic, and biological ...

Paleontologists recently discovered tiny crystals of amber embedded in coal found in China's Hujiersite Formation, which dates back to the Late Devonian period, 385 million years ago. It's the oldest ...

But a new discovery suggests that these viscous secretions emerged in a very different world from the one our minds conjure ...

Nearly half a million years ago, ancient humans at Kalambo Falls in Zambia shaped and fitted together large pieces of wood to build a substantial structure. The discovery, dated to at least 476,000 ...