H-O-T-T-O-O-A-K: The air is warming, the blossoms are showing off, and everyone you know is sneezing. You might have heard seasonal allergies blamed on “botanical sexism”—but that’s not how trees work ...

Linden Stewart recalls that he first spotted a bee at the tender age of seven. By the time he was fourteen, beekeeping was ...

Lightning is usually seen as a harbinger of destruction in forests, killing or damaging trees in their blasts. But in the ...

Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.

Trees with white flowers have a way of lifting and lightening a garden’s mood—as well as soothing the mood of the gardener.