5 days ago · A swath of dead, tilted and broken trees now makes obvious the trace of the Fairweather fault that broke in July 1958 to devastate Lituya Bay and nearby parts of …

Mar 24, 1993 · Taxol is derived from the bark of Pacific yew trees, a species found mostly in old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest, from the Cascades to the Rockies. A few Pacific yews …

Oct 16, 2025 · The sand-smothered trees die and the wind shatters their tops and blows them off. The prevailing winds then scoop the sand out from around the dead trees in the trench and …

Nov 20, 2025 · Granted, not all trees exhibit the same twist, but the majority of them do. The phenomenon can be likened to the claim that water will always spiral out of a drain in a …

Nov 20, 2025 · Spruce trees planted on the islands by the Russians in 1805 are doing just fine and reseeding themselves naturally, although the total tree population hardly amounts to a forest.

Nov 20, 2025 · When one of these trees finds itself on a better site, however, it shows a remarkable change of pace. Individual tamarack growing in white spruce stands may achieve …

Nov 14, 1990 · The elderly trees still produced seeds, but none of the seeds gerrninated, even when carefully tended under ideal nursery conditions. It was tempting to think the old trees …

Nov 6, 2025 · Greek scholars knew a great deal about pines, for these trees occupied a prominent place in the landscape. The oldest known living organism is a bristlecone pine found in …

5 days ago · By decomposing dead trees and plants, fungi play a crucial role in maintaining soil fertility. Hundreds of thousands of different fungi exist. We are familiar with those that form …

Nov 20, 2025 · The analogy of smoking's relation to cancer hardly needs mention. If this suggestion is correct, that there is similarity between the occurrence of burls and cancer, then …