Taiwan, historically known as Formosa, holds a secret deep within its rugged interior: it is one of the rare locations on ...

Additional fieldwork required following a river for 12 miles, hiking precipitously uphill, and then sending professional tree ...

Trees are tall. Humans, relatively speaking, are not. And we're not the most agile climbers in the animal kingdom, either. But we are crafty, and we can out-think even the most wizened redwood. But ...

The world’s tallest tree is found in northern California – it’s a redwood that stands 379 feet tall. This tree and its relatives are the largest single organisms in the world, but just how big can ...

Scientists have created the first global map of forest height using satellite data. The map will improve estimates of how much carbon is stored in Earth’s trees and how much carbon dioxide they absorb ...

How tall can a tree grow? Does sunlight or water limit the size and photosynthetic capacity of a leaf? Could constraints on leaf growth really determine the height of a tree? These are all questions ...