What to know before the extreme cold settles in.

Trees can die suddenly or quite slowly. Fire, flood or wind can cause a quick death by severely damaging a tree’s ability to transport water and nutrients up and down its trunk. Sometimes a serious ...

When temperatures plunge and the air goes painfully still, people in northern forests sometimes hear a sharp crack that sounds like a gunshot. That eerie noise has fueled a viral claim that trees ...

The first major storm of the season hit Minnesota and Wisconsin on Monday, bringing hail, high winds and tornadoes. That type of weather can wreak havoc on trees. So how should you properly assess ...

Why is this Callery pear tree in full bloom in October? Stress and confusion. In early September, WVXU reported on trees changing their fall leaves too soon. Now there's a new tree phenomenon: second ...

Tree roots growing at or slightly above the soil surface are called surface roots. Homeowners having trees with these surface roots are frustrated with the additional challenges posed by mowing and ...

Bald Cypress swamp at Atchafalaya basin in Louisiana. When is a tree not a tree? We often think of urban trees as simply poles in the ground, islands unto themselves, but they are ecosystems all their ...

We are in the middle of a very hot summer. As I was mowing the yard this weekend, I stopped to take a break in the shade of the swamp chestnut oak tree in my front yard. I started thinking about the ...