On a remote Chilean island, botanists are trying to keep a species alive that's literally down to one wild tree—and a new ...

"It is a race against time." The post Scientists Rush to Save One of the World’s Rarest Trees as It Literally Falls Off a ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Heather Schneider of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden about the garden's efforts to conserve seeds of rare plants from Santa Rosa Island, where a wildfire just burned.

The species spent decades recovering from ranching on Santa Rosa Island.

Early details are coming in about the status of rare trees on Santa Rosa Island, where firefighters continue to battle an over 17,000-acre fire nearly a week after it was first reported. The Santa ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the world’s rarest trees, dubbed the dinosaur tree, is bearing fruit for the first time in a garden in Worcestershire - ...

SAN DIEGO — Perched on crumbling cliffs along San Diego’s coastline, a fragile forest of rare trees continues to survive in one of the harshest environments in North America. This is Torrey Pines ...

Most trees don't ask for much attention. They grow slowly and mind their own leafy business. But among Earth's 73,000 tree species, some are rare and legendary. They stand out not because they're the ...

Introduction -- Trees and their ecosystems. Tropical rainforests ; Tropical cloud forests ; Tropical dry forests ; Temperate and boreal forests ; Islands -- Trees and their uses. Medicine, poisons, ...

“It looks like the Natural Land Institute’s Legacy Tree Program has found yet another Illinois state champion tree: a rare American chestnut (Castanea dentata) in Freeport,” said Alan Branhagen, ...