There is an attractive tree that you may have noticed or even have growing in your yard. Tall and graceful, it has fluttering heart-shaped blue-green leaves in summer that turn yellow or red in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock The rampant growth of Chinese tallow trees in and around New Orleans has caused a conundrum for scientists ...

In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History have used data from a 120-year-old program managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to quantify the effects ...

In a new study, researchers used more than 5 million measurements from individual trees across much of eastern North America and showed the rate at which introduced species are spreading has increased ...

An Uptown woman on Sunday ended her month-long vigil to save the Chinese tallow tree in front of her house, after finalizing a commitment from city officials that the tree would be spared the ax and ...

A little known consequence of Hurricane Katrina and its flood waters was that in low-lying areas, where water gathered for longer periods of time, seeds from nonnative trees such as the Chinese tallow ...

Q: I am trying to remove lawn grass from a part of my yard. There are three large, old crape myrtles in that area, and they have extensive root systems. In removing the grass, I have damaged their ...

On April 21, you published an article, “Above And BEEyond.” It had some good information. However, there was a glaring statement which goes against everything that experts in forestry, agriculture or ...

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In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History have used data from a 120-year-old program managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to quantify the effects ...