The decaying nature of ancient and veteran trees is one of their key characteristics because of the microhabitats they offer ...

I have a huge oak tree in our yard. Its roots are protruding above the ground. I’m concerned that someone might trip on them.

The felling of a 500-year-old ancient oak in north London ... while a slow-growing yew tree would not receive the same accolade until it was around 800 years old. Such age means they tend to ...

Russell Miller, an ecology expert said the tree could have lived another hundred years and described the felling as “the worst example ... of an oak tree of this size and age.

The hacking back of the Whitewebbs Oak is just another example ... for historic trees to get, at a minimum, the same protection as historic buildings: a building the same age as the Whitewebbs ...

(Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) Trees are emotive, as the furore over the Toby Carvery oak and the Sycamore ... Ash dieback is just one example of a broader crisis in neglected woodland ...

The bobcat that frequents the western end of San Diego’s Tecolote Canyon Natural Park, a 600-acre coastal watershed haven ...

The 20-year-old flanker is uber-confident and uber-athletic - and has made a compelling case for British and Irish Lions ...

Spring has sprung and it is the subject for the latest Readers Photo Challenge. After being cooped up indoors during the cold winter months, I’m guessing that a good many of you are happy for ...

Researchers are working to unravel the hidden biology of often-persnickety seeds as they age, sleep and awaken ...