Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 450-year-old oak tree, considered more ecologically significant than the Sycamore Gap tree, that was felled by the owners of a ...

Deep in the swamps of the American Southeast stands a quiet giant: the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). These majestic trees, with their knobby "knees" and towering trunks, are more than just swamp ...

Most trees don’t ask for much attention. They grow slowly and mind their own leafy business. But among Earth’s 73,000 tree species, some are rare and legendary. They stand out not because they’re the ...

North of Washington off the west coast of Vancouver Island, a Canadian nature photographer and forest advocate recently located and documented one of the biggest and oldest trees in the Pacific ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Not many living organisms have been around long enough to ...

In Romania, a walk in the woods blossomed into a mission to safeguard centuries-old beeches and the history that shaped them. Credit... Supported by Photographs by Nicholas J. R. White Text by Alan ...

(CNN) — They’re your childhood climbing frame, a canopy to shelter from the rain, a shady place to have a picnic; they offer sanctuary, fruit, a home for wildlife, protection against flooding and ...