A new study on conifers shows that not damage to the trees' water transport system plays the largest role, but—unexpectedly—the length of their leaves' lifespan, and stem growth recovery after ...

Conifer forests in California hurt by a severe drought in the late ’90s and early 2000s weathered a second severe dry spell about a decade later better than forests that hadn’t experienced the ...

Dead trees are seen in Yosemite National Park June 18, 2016 in Yosemite Vally, California. (Getty Images) by: City News Service Nov 7, 2016 / 01:33 PM PST Nov 7, 2016 / 01:36 PM PST ...

But just 61 seconds after flames licked the needles of a desiccated conifer, the tree was reduced to smoldering branches. The NIST did the experiment, so you don’t have to — no matter how you ...

Drought conditions Hunter Decker, the county forester, said he’s seen many conifers showing the telltale top-down die-off of dehydrated trees. Charles Ray, the city of Vancouver’s urban ...

Longer-lived species, like conifer trees, which can live for centuries, often find it harder to keep up with the velocity of climate change, said Chris Field, the director of the Stanford Woods ...

DENVER — The city of Denver is on the hunt for beetle-infested trees. On Wednesday, the Denver Parks and Recreation department removed 13 spruce trees from Cheesman Park because they found the ...

Williams’ postdoctoral adviser at Los Alamos, Dr. Nate McDowell, an expert on mechanisms of tree death, had been concurrently conducting his own experiments on conifers in the wild.