Throughout their lifetimes, healthy forests produce more oxygen than they use, while taking in greenhouse gases via plants ...

A Fungus growing on a living tree is a symptom of heart rot. Trees are infected through wounds from lawn mowers, weed-whacker whips, deer rubbing, rodent chewing, frost cracks, broken branches and ...

In the wake of last month’s wind and rain storms, many trees throughout the San Fernando Valley have lost branches, split apart, or been uprooted altogether. I recently witnessed the remnants of three ...

Today it’s all about heart disease — heart disease in trees that is. Obviously, trees do not have hearts. Trees consist of a beautifully engineered material called wood, designed to combine strength ...

The tree that crushed a woman’s car in Charlotte on Thursday had heart rot, or internal decay, the city arborist says. High winds contributed to the incident, city arborist Don McSween said Friday.

Earlier this month, a large Japanese pagoda tree at Davis Commons Shopping Center in Davis lost a large branch. The branch fell to the ground; fortunately it did not hit anyone or anything. The tree ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Hardwood or deciduous trees can be harmed or killed by disease-causing ...