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How is paper made from trees?Plant-based paper has been used for thousands of years, but exactly how is it created from trees?
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Pando: The world's largest tree and heaviest living organismPando is a giant aspen clone in central Utah that has been regrowing parts of itself for up to 80,000 years — but new threats mean the plant is now in decline.
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Deep below the Arctic Ocean, some plants have adapted to photosynthesize in almost near darknessPlants found to photosynthesize 160 feet beneath the surface of the Arctic Ocean offer tantalizing prospects for the future.
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Lost biblical tree resurrected from 1,000-year-old mystery seed found in the Judaean DesertScientists have grown an ancient seed from a cave in the Judaean Desert into a tree — and it could belong to a locally-extinct species with medicinal properties mentioned several times in the Bible.
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Fossils from lush 53 million-year-old South Pole rainforest discovered in TasmaniaResearchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest.
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Rainbow swamp: The flooded forest in Virginia that puts on a magical light show every winterEvery winter, when sunlight hits at the right angle, visitors to Virginia's First Landing State Park are treated to a mesmerizing rainbow light show courtesy of the park's bald cypress swamp.
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Fossils from Greenland's icy heart reveal it was a green tundra covered in flowers less than 1 million years agoGreenland was almost completely ice-free at some point in the last one million years, fossilized flowers from a core sample taken from the center of the island reveal.
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3 remarkable trees: A living fossil, a deadly canopy, and the world's biggest seeds that were once mounted in gold by royals"Sailors believed they grew underwater at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, and it was thought that male trees uprooted themselves on stormy nights and walked to find female trees, embracing them to pollinate their large flowers."
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Even trees 'hold their breath' to avoid harmful wildfire smoke, research findsTrees don't like to breathe wildfire smoke, either.
