John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

... Yes, it’s a real thing. Frigid temperatures have taken hold of the U.S. Midwest, with the thermometer hovering around the -30°C mark in some places. The ...

Chrystal Beasley holds up the Liberty Tree certificate from 1976. A giant burr oak named Frank, dating to before the Revolutionary War, will be removed from Northeast Kansas City starting Tuesday, ...

RIGHT NOW ON THE KMBC9 YOUTUBE CHANNEL AND ON THE VERY LOCAL APP. WELL, PEOPLE IN ONE KANSAS CITY NEIGHBORHOOD ARE SAYING GOODBYE TO A BELOVED FRIEND A TREE. IT’S NOT JUST ANY TREE, IT’S ONE FOR THE ...

Trees are known for capturing carbon dioxide as they grow. But they also soak up other gases implicated in climate change through microbes in their bark. The tree bark microbes feast on hydrogen, ...

Your noble fir — or maybe you went for a blue spruce, or a Douglas fir — has done its festive service. Your tree can find a new purpose as wood chips or compost, according to King County. But how do ...

It was one Christmas visitor that didn’t overstay its welcome. A Burmese python that had been spotted in a Miami-Dade neighborhood was removed just days before Christmas after a resident out for a ...

OH NO! Pickles, my vibrant green tree python, just laid a clutch of eggs… but something went terribly wrong—they were all rotten! In this unexpected twist, we explore what might have caused this ...

With so many varieties sold as Christmas trees, knowing what differentiates a Douglas fir from a Norway spruce is key to shopping for a real tree you’ll love. You’re likely to see more than one ...

Paying for gifts, decorations and gingerbread houses can become quite expensive, so the U.S. Department of the Interior is hoping to ease some financial burden by making Christmas trees more ...

A traditional fir tree may say Christmas in Rockefeller Plaza, but in here in South Florida back in 2012, that just wasn't tropical enough for the folks planning West Palm Beach's downtown holiday ...