It’s a win-win,” said Jonathan Carr, of Carr’s Cider House in Hadley. “It is a nice break for them. It kind of breaks up the ...

Spruce bark beetles don’t just tolerate their host tree’s chemical defenses—they actively reshape them into stronger ...

Climate change is causing trees to sprout earlier in spring. Nevertheless, some tree species are growing less. A study by the ...

New York released more than 1,000 spruce grouse in the northern Adirondacks over 13 years to save the endangered bird.

A commercial plantation of Scots pine, Norway spruce and Sitka spruce on the larger piece of land has now been felled with ...

Spruce bark beetles hijack their host tree’s chemical defenses, transforming them into potent weapons against fungal threats.

Scientists are baffled by solid gold particles found in Norway spruce needles. Previously thought impossible, this discovery ...

On a fine gray afternoon in late October, I came across an impressive cone midden beneath a towering red spruce. While it was surely the work of an industrious squirrel — perhaps a family, given the ...

Then there is the fungus, Beauveria bassiana. This fungus is neither the tree’s nor the beetle’s friend; as a pathogenic ...

Abstract: Clustering is an unsupervised method used to group data points based on their similarity. It has many applications in data mining and preprocessing. Algorithms used for arbitrarily shaped ...

Is that tree a pine, a fir or a spruce? Here's a handy guide to identifying the many species of trees populating Central ...

Only 21 species worldwide are known to do this, almost all in northern climates, according to an article in the journal ...