Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nick Beckage, a graduate researcher, Davin Louangaphay, a research assistant, and Philippe Amstislavski, a professor of health ...

A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology discovered a previously unknown strategy by which certain ...

Anywhere else in the world, more trees would be a blessing. But in the far north of Alaska, they’re a reckoning. As the Arctic warms up to four times as fast as the rest of the planet, white spruce ...

University of Alberta research is showing how trees and fungi team up to survive and stay healthy against insect attacks—an alliance that could lead to more resilient forests. Endophytes—tiny ...

Spruce bark beetles don’t just tolerate their host tree’s chemical defenses—they actively reshape them into stronger antifungal protections. These stolen defenses help shield the beetles from ...

A new gene atlas of Norway spruce cones tracks the switch from branch to cone and turns up DAL55, a gene no one had described ...