The Tree That Built Homes for Ants — and Found Wasps Moving In
A Bornean tree makes hollow rooms for protective ants. Researchers found another tenant inside: a wasp storing paralysed flies.
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They Cut Down the Tree. They Didn’t Kill It.
Three years after Sycamore Gap was felled, a ring of shoots is rising from the stump. Regrowth is not the same as restoration.
The Tree That Died — and Is About to Turn 200
Vancouver’s Old Apple Tree lost its original trunk in 2020. Its roots—and the question of what makes a tree the same tree—remain alive.
Can You Plant a Future Landmark?
In a park in South Australia, a new Bodhi tree was planted with an old ambition: to become a place people share.
The Tree People Climbed Into When the City Went Under
During Hyderabad’s catastrophic flood of 1908, about 150 people reportedly climbed into one tamarind tree. It is still standing.
A Tree Knows When It Is Bent
New research reveals how trees sense the curvature of their own stems and produce the wood they need to straighten themselves again.
The Plant That Arrived at Kew in 1775 Is Moving Again
More than 250 years ago, an Eastern Cape giant cycad travelled from South Africa to Kew. Now the garden's oldest potted plant is preparing for another move.
Where Old Olive Trees Go to Begin Again
In Mendoza, Argentina, thousands of century-old olive trees that were destined to disappear have been given another place to grow.
The Last Tree on the Cliff
On a remote Pacific island, one tree carries almost the entire wild future of its species.