Ancient alerce trees may shelter entire underground ecosystems, with vast fungal networks helping forests cycle nutrients and store carbon.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 450-year-old oak tree, considered more ecologically significant than the Sycamore Gap tree, that was felled by the owners of a ...

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An ancient oak tree felled beside a Toby Carvery restaurant in north London was healthy and showed little evidence it needed to be cut down, according to a report released by the Forestry Commission.

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old. A Phoebe zhennan tree, about 400 years old, in the Wen-Qi ...