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Residents can request a dangerous tree on city property be removed by calling the Muskegon Department of Public Works.

The unwanted plant releases chemical into the soil “that kills everything around it,” a Catawba Lands Conservancy official ...

By cooling the air and providing shade, the Clifton Urban Forest is already helping the city adapt to rising temperatures.

About 7 in 10 U.S. adults say they believe in angels, but what, exactly, is an angel? Typical portrayals in Western art ...

Looking for the perfect tree? Here are five common options you'll find in Rhode Island. One of the most popular varieties of ...

As the Atlantic grew wider, the ancestral population of all of today's oaks may have been straddling the continents of the ...

Ecuador’s Amazon trees face extinction risks as seed-dispersing animals vanish. 14% are critically endangered, and 47% may go ...

The most popular breeds of Christmas trees are the Fraser fir, Douglas fir and Noble fir. Now, Chastagner is experimenting ...

If you have a live cut tree in your home, you may be wondering how much longer it should stay up. Does it matter when it was ...

Christmas trees are grown on farms across the country, but these areas produce the highest number of trees annually.