Trees are the lifeblood of the forest. While alive, they form their body; as snags (standing dead trees), they provide ...

Walk into any woods in New England (or the world) and you are bound to find standing dead trees. Depending upon where you live and how you view natural ecosystems these can be viewed either as ...

When visitors ask me if I live here at Stillman Nature Center, my normal response is, “Yes, in the third hollow tree from the left.” Humor aside, what’s really living in dead trees? At least 43 ...

If long droughts and massive wildfires weren’t enough harm to California’s trees, there is massive damage being done by pests and fungi. This could contribute to more acres of record-setting wildfires ...

For years, people living in a quiet West Seneca neighborhood say power outages were a regular part of life, often triggered ...

Nature speaks for itself, while art amplifies whatever nature has to say. Artist Luca Gnizio has cut a niche for himself in amplifying the communications of nature. His latest project, Forsoultree, ...

Dark against the autumn sky, its branches broken and twisted, with mysterious black holes and cracks in its bark, a dead tree might seem spooky. But to many animals, it’s home. Bats, screech owls, ...

Though no one may be around to hear when a tree falls in the forest, countless critters take note. Dormant fungi within the tree awaken to feast on it, joined by others that creep up from the soil.