Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Large oak tree in front of nice neighborhood Oak trees have been around for more than 50 million years, with individual trees ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leaves of a swamp chestnut oak - Sarah Macor/Shutterstock If there's a swampy corner in your backyard, the swamp chestnut oak ...

One of the signature trees at the Pitt County Arboretum is the Nuttall oak in our Mixed Border. Perhaps the largest tree on ...

Winter is the perfect time to prune oak trees. Oak trees are special for many reasons: they’re Iowa’s state tree, they’re important to our ecosystem and — they shouldn’t be pruned during the spring ...

Community members gathered at Pebble Hill Plantation on Feb. 20 in observance of Arbor Day, honoring the city’s commitment to caring, growing, and preserving trees in the community and celebrating the ...

A new study shows that tiny microbes living in and around oak trees may help them survive drought, poor soil, and disease.

Microbes could help oak trees cope with environmental change. Publishing in Cell Host & Microbe, a study observing oaks ...

Oak trees around Minnesota have suffered from bouts of heavy precipitation and drought — conditions that make them more vulnerable to two-lined chestnut borer, a beetle that eats the inner bark of oak ...