Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Leaves are the food factories of the tree. Powered by sunlight, the green ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Hickory trees have a leaf with less than nine leaflets and an alternate leaf ...

A little knowledge of botany can be helpful, even if you’re an amateur gardener. Here are a few things you should know about what happens in the fall. By Margaret Roach What’s going on out there — and ...

The amazing finding comes from a survey of 39 trees by Brent Helliker and Suzanna Richter from the University of Pennsylvania. The pair looked at both deciduous and evergreen species across the entire ...

One of the most useless-but-cool things about physics is the post-hoc information it offers for the field of biology. I suspect that these physics-focused explanations really piss biologists off, and ...