These small conifer trees for birds provide food and refuge in all seasons. These varieties are perfect for small landscapes.

If you want your front yard's landscaping to look gorgeous without much effort, check out the beautiful and easy tree that's ...

If you’ve ever suffered from dry, irritated eyes or struggled to fall asleep after a long day of staring at your computer, you may have been tempted to purchase a pair of blue-light-blocking ...

Since trees and shrubs live long lives, some as many as thousands of years, scientists can pinpoint the past’s chilliest summers by searching for these blue rings. Selecting Mount Iškoras in Norway ...

Buchwal's team analyzed samples from 25 Scots pine trees and 54 juniper shrubs, staining and photographing their growth rings under a microscope. The study revealed that blue rings were more ...

A blue ring formed in 1902 in a tree in northern Norway. Image by Pawel Matulewski and Liliana Siekacz. Scientists studying pine trees and juniper shrubs in northern Scandinavia are revealing the ...

Overall, only 2.1% of the pine trees' rings and 1.3% of the juniper shrubs' rings were blue; the cells which hadn't lignified properly were mainly found at the end of growth rings, in latewood ...

The researchers, who published the study in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science, found that the blue rings pointed to extreme cooling during the summers of 1902 and 1877, directly coinciding with ...

Since trees and shrubs can live for hundreds of years, identifying these blue rings allows us to spot cold summers in the past. By looking at pine trees and juniper shrubs from northern Norway ...

Scientists studying pine trees and juniper shrubs in northern Scandinavia are revealing the weather of the past by looking at tree rings — which can tell us far more than just the trees’ age. ‘Blue’ ...