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Who Needs a Weather App When You Can Get This Weather Stick?

Swap your Apple phone for an actual branch.
Tao Tao Holmes June 28, 2016
trees

Why One Beetle is Making St. Louis Chop Down Its Own Trees

If you love something, let it go before it gets totally infested and falls over onto you.
David Doochin June 23, 2016
Three Rivers, California

Glowing Millipedes of Sequoia National Park

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.
Mitchell, Oregon

Mitchell Shoe Tree

Make it an offering.
The oldest oak tree
Ivenack, Germany

Oaks of Ivenack

The oldest trees in Northern Germany.
nature

Tree from Minecraft Found to Be the Tallest in the Tropics

One guy climbed it with a tape measure.
Erik Shilling June 8, 2016
"Bonsai Rock" at the west shore of Lake Tahoe, February 2010
Washoe County, Nevada

Bonsai Rock, Lake Tahoe

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.
poison

The Incredible Coincidence of a Poisonous Tree Growing Next to Its Antidote

These trees, found in Mexico and parts of Central America, are an arborlogical wonder.
John Peck June 6, 2016
A tree on trial in Somerville.
trees

In The Mood For Drama? Go To An Urban Tree Hearing

The people of Somerville, Massachusetts really, really care about trees.
Cara Giaimo June 1, 2016
trees

The Irrepressible Palm Tree Tourists Who Travel the World to See Fronds

Just looking for a little bit of paradise.
Andy Wright May 31, 2016
trees

A Short History of Rakes, and Why You Should Think Twice About Using Them

They've evolved through the years.
Ernie Smith May 20, 2016
Hangman's Elm
New York, New York

The Hangman's Elm

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.
trees

Tree Law is a Gnarly, Twisted Branch of the Legal System

These lawyers specialize in arboreal arbitration.
Natasha Geiling May 20, 2016
trees

So You Want to Eat a Tree

A guide to ingesting bark, cambium, leaves, flowers, and buds.
Tao Tao Holmes May 20, 2016
science

The Scientist Who Discovered Sudden Oak Death Believes We Can Save the Forests

We should have taken the disease more seriously before it killed a million trees, though.
Natalie Zarrelli May 19, 2016
games

Watch These Guys Climb 80-Foot Poles in Just 13 Seconds

Sprinting up a vertical surface: challenging, but possible.
Tao Tao Holmes May 19, 2016
trees

Read the Tree Leaves, With an Artist's Invented Tree Font

The plants are speaking. Time to read what they have to say.
Ella Morton May 19, 2016
some days they just can't
trees

Trees—They're Just Like Us!

There's literally nothing that trees can't do, including get weird with their bodies.
Tao Tao Holmes May 19, 2016