Shea Gunther is a writer, entrepreneur, and podcaster living in Portland, Maine. He covers topics such as renewable energy, climate change, and nature. General Sherman makes the list for being ...

In all the time I’ve spent cruising around my quiet Seattle neighborhood for fallen sidewalk fruit (the semi-bruised apples are delicious), I’ve never thought to myself: “Geez. I wish all these trees ...

The botanically-minded among you will be fascinated by the developments of an upcoming augmented reality application being created by The National Science Foundation. As we reported in “Scientists ...

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Trees, is there anything they can’t do? Doubtful. Let’s see: producing half the world’s oxygen, providing habitat for millions of species, creating the soil and timber resources we depend on. Not bad.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Good Morning, and welcome to our Saturday morning reminder of one of the ...

The appeal of tree houses is fairly obvious: seclusion, sustainability, coziness, communion with nature. Of course, often times those are qualities that are felt rather than understood–there’s a ...

Remember the good old days when a tree house was a rough-looking assemblage of two-by-fours and plywood wedged into the crook of your backyard oak tree? These days, tree houses are more than just ...

In a magical marriage of art and nature, artist Sam Van Aken has created a living fairytale tree that blooms in multiple colors and produces 40 different kinds of fruit. The Syracuse University ...