The story of dragon’s blood spans folklore, botany and biochemistry. Here’s how it teaches us how trees respond to injury with blood-red resilience.
On a talus-strewn slope in eastern California’s mountains, a gnarled tree twists toward the sky. It is Methuselah, a Great ...
The Creation Justice Ministry of the Church of St Michael (SMC), through the Regenerate: Urban Forestry programme, recently organised a tree-planting initiative in conjunction with the parish’s 135th ...
With its laid-back seafaring culture and unique wildlife, the Yaeyama archipelago in Japan’s far southern Okinawa prefecture reveals a different side to Japan.
There are several advantages to planting bare-root trees: they are usually less expensive, easier for gardeners to transport, and they will grow their roots entirely into native soil (rather than ...
A long-term experiment reveals tropical forests in Panama are able to adapt to droughts, but scientists warn this short-term "rescue strategy" is unlikely to save them from the impacts of climate ...
AS a member of the Board of Governors of the SAINT Inter­national School in Shah Alam, I was invited to its end of year awards-cum-graduation and talent show last month. There, I met a remarkable ...
There are several advantages to planting bare-root trees: they are usually less expensive, easier for gardeners to transport, and they will grow their roots entirely into native soil (rather than ...
Perhaps the most remarkable feature of all species, living and extinct, is their extraordinary interconnectivity. Each species on Earth can trace its roots back to the same cluster of ancestral ...
Perhaps their greatest benefit to us is keeping the air clean. Trees pull carbon from the atmosphere and through the process of photosynthesis, trees absorb air pollutants and release clean oxygen.