And as a tree matures, so does the character of its bark, useful knowledge that can help gauge how old a tree might be. Seeing a 150-year-old tree is impressive on its own, made all the more ...

Research on Tasmania’s large old trees has given designers good reason to reflect on the many things about trees that humans ...

Thanks to the tree-dwelling microbes, less of it gets released into the atmosphere as methane, because they transform it into less harmful CO 2. “This methane in soil is possibly going to come ...

While it was already known that microbes in tree bark eat methane, the study is the first to quantify the volume of atmospheric methane that, on a global scale, trees can remove – somewhere ...