American trees are in trouble. Based on recent estimates, up to one in every six native species in the continental US is in danger of going extinct, due to mounting threats such as invasive species, ...

When words fail, sometimes you just have to cut down half a tree – at least, that’s what one couple did. The couple, in Sheffield, U.K., called in an arborist to cut down half of the branches of a ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When you hear the word “kangaroo,” you ...

The white mulberry overhung our gravel driveway when my husband and I moved into our Cambridge house 20 years ago. It was a large tree; tall, leafy and fertile. Each year, on a day in early summer, we ...

A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District. A Funky Kind of Person, Indeed: Last week, a member of the Columbia Heights email list wrote, ...

I have a bit of a problem, I think. I have a 12-year-old fig tree in the backyard that has produced well over the years. I got a dog a year ago and didn’t realize until it was too late that he was ...

Things have gotten messy at Joshua Tree National Park. The southern California protected area will close Thursday thanks to security, vandalism and sanitation issues brought on by lack of staff from ...

Our newest greyhound, Coral, has been a very well-behaved girl since she came to live with us a couple of weeks ago. She's still pretty new to living in a house verses living in a kennel at a dog ...