In ecosystems like dry Australian savannas, certain termites even invade living trees, an uncommon move since the live tissue holds nasty, defensive compounds. These termites invade the roots and then ...

Well, for starters, because bristlecones live where practically nothing else can, little competition exists for water and nutrients. Bristlecone pines can liberally spread their roots and expand ...

There is lots of bad news from the forests recently, from both the natural environment and the “cultural environment” (“environment” being those things around us that we cannot change from where we ...

showing broad spans of exposed heartwood and dead tops. Such trees may only have one thin ribbon of living bark, usually on the downwind side, that shelters a lifeline of cambium connecting the ...

What is dead, living and non-living? The environment around us is full of dead, living and non-living things. Trees and animals are living things. Dry leaves on the ground are dead, but they were ...