DULUTH — It’s been said that the true meaning of life is planting a tree "under whose shade you do not expect to sit," a hint, of course, that you’ll likely be dead before the tree gets that tall. But ...

From left, ORNL's Biruk Feyissa holds a five-month-old poplar tree expressing high levels of the BOOSTER gene, while colleague Wellington Muchero holds a tree of the same age with lower expression of ...

Sitting under the wide canopy of a tree can cool you off on a hot summer day and even lower home-energy costs. If your landscape is treeless, the sooner a new tree grows a shady canopy, the better. A ...

I have a poplar tree in my backyard that is 1 1/2 years old. Over the past year and a half it has done a few funny things. Upon planting it, the leaves went yellow in the summer. I think we were over ...

CRISPR tweaks tree genetics to make paper more sustainably By Michael Irving July 18, 2023 CRISPR-edited poplar trees (left) and wild-type trees growing in a greenhouse Chenmin Yang, NC State ...

Throughout Madison County, much of our forest is dominated by a tall, pale-barked tree that grows ramrod straight. Often called “yellow poplar” by loggers and sawmill owners, it’s also known as “tulip ...

SEBEKA, Minn. -- While researchers rush to develop new biomass sources for cellulosic ethnanol, Minnesota for a decade has been working on short-rotation, intensive of culture trees for energy and ...

CORVALLIS, Mont. — One-hundred-twenty some years ago, copper magnate Marcus Daly spearheaded the planting of thousands of trees in the Bitterroot Valley. His specially chosen poplar trees would ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. REGION — Two readers came forward to state there are more tulip trees in the ...

If you’ve seen headlines of tomatoes with a spicy kick and mushrooms that won’t brown, it comes as no surprise genetic engineering is providing a means for us to reshape nature in ways that would ...

Q: We have a cottonwood in our yard, and we noticed last week that a few branches are dying. The tree is approximately 25-30 years old so I can’t imagine that the tree is dying. We were wondering if ...