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Podcast: Oh, the Places You Will Go... to See These Notable Trees

Celebrity trees can leave a deep-rooted impression.
The Podcast Team April 24, 2024
trees

Podcast: Tree Week Love Letters

Can trees write back?
The Podcast Team April 23, 2024
food

Podcast: A Tasty Tale about Meyer Lemons

One notably delicious citrus turns out to be a secret killer.
The Podcast Team April 22, 2024
An old postcard showing the Forest Products Building c. 1930.
Madison, Wisconsin

Forest Products Laboratory

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.
trees

A Short History of Rakes, and Why You Should Think Twice About Using Them

They've evolved through the years.
Ernie Smith May 20, 2016
animals

The Scientific Squabble Over the Dodo Tree

An extinct bird, an ailing tree, and a controversial hypothesis.
Lauren Young May 20, 2016
A paloverde tree stands guard in an Arizona desert. In 1993, one of these trees helped solve a crime when it dropped its distinct seeds into a murderer's pickup truck.
crime and punishment

How Trees Help Solve Murders

Twigs, seeds and pollen can help heat up otherwise cold cases.
Cara Giaimo May 20, 2016
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photography

Fancy Living in a Tree? Take a Look at These Dream Treehouses

Enchanting architecture in the tree-tops.
Anika Burgess May 20, 2016
trees

Tree Law is a Gnarly, Twisted Branch of the Legal System

These lawyers specialize in arboreal arbitration.
Natasha Geiling May 20, 2016
forests

Forests Can Handle Hurricanes, Unless Humans Interfere

A forest's recovery can be long and slow, but surprisingly successful.
Sarah Laskow May 20, 2016
trees

So You Want to Eat a Tree

A guide to ingesting bark, cambium, leaves, flowers, and buds.
Tao Tao Holmes May 20, 2016
science

The Scientist Who Discovered Sudden Oak Death Believes We Can Save the Forests

We should have taken the disease more seriously before it killed a million trees, though.
Natalie Zarrelli May 19, 2016
A 3-D scan of the Ballymorereagh Ogham stone. The inscription translates to "Cellach son of Mac-Áine."
monuments

Preserving Ireland's Ancient, Mysterious Tree-Based Alphabet

Across Ireland, hundreds of millennia-old Ogham stones are slowly weathering away.
Cara Giaimo May 19, 2016
games

Watch These Guys Climb 80-Foot Poles in Just 13 Seconds

Sprinting up a vertical surface: challenging, but possible.
Tao Tao Holmes May 19, 2016
trees

Read the Tree Leaves, With an Artist's Invented Tree Font

The plants are speaking. Time to read what they have to say.
Ella Morton May 19, 2016
some days they just can't
trees

Trees—They're Just Like Us!

There's literally nothing that trees can't do, including get weird with their bodies.
Tao Tao Holmes May 19, 2016
places you can no longer go

Places You Can No Longer Go: The Mammoth Tree

The giant sequoia that found its way to Broadway in New York City.
Lucas Adams May 19, 2016
poison

Do Not Eat, Touch, Or Even Inhale the Air Around the Manchineel Tree

Meet America's deadliest tree. Found in Florida, of course.
Dan Nosowitz May 19, 2016