This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was chopped down in Rensselaer County, New York. Statistically speaking, that’s unusual. While New York state is one of the 10 leading producers of ...

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Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The old tree had survived plenty. Branches tangled in power lines. Dogs ...

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...

Scientists have found that a single tree can be home to a trillion microbial cells — an invisible ecosystem that is only beginning to be understood. A black oak in the Yale-Myers Forest of northern ...

The link between proximity to greenspace — including trees and parks— and healthy birth outcomes is well established. Now new data from researchers at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public ...

Why some U.S. cities are so much greener than others. Ever since I first visited D.C., I was in awe of how full of trees it was. Rock Creek Park, one of the oldest city parks in the United States, is ...

The wood that provides the structural basis of trees is non-living, i.e. a dead material, but it is surrounded by living material that grows, regenerates and transports fluid and nutrients around the ...

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.

Minecraft Snapshot 25W09A introduces new fallen trees at various biomes. Now, the firefly bushes spawn in Mangrove biomes rather than badlands. Finally, the leaf litter blocks have become replaceable ...

Trees are living organisms that can respond actively to infection, whereas timber products must be treated chemically to make them resistant to rotting. Living trees can become infected by bacteria, ...