In a city of glass and steel, master stone carver Chris Pellettieri is preserving an art form that has shaped skylines for ...

"Dive into Germany’s Harz National Park—one of just 16 national parks in the country—as it battles a massive bark beetle outbreak. Decades of spruce monocultures (planted to fuel centuries of mining) ...

Like most non-resident elk hunters on a DIY trip in the West, I was about to eat my archery elk tag — then we heard a bugle ...

Hellebores add color to winter gardens with cold-hardy blooms that thrive even in snowy conditions. Plant hellebores in fall ...

For the birds that have brought life and song to your backyard this past summer, the transition to fall is a season of ...

Jim Henterly spends most of the summer atop a North Cascades peak, where the view of our wildfire future is uneasy.

As the number of fires continues to rise, each new one represents a roll of the dice, said Michael Medler, a former wildland firefighter and pyrogeography researcher at Western Washington University.

Scientists find bacteria inside Norway spruce needles that can turn dissolved gold into solid nanoparticles.

The Post examined data that shows how the decisions being made now about what trees to plant in place of dying ones will ...

Spruce tree needles contain tiny gold particles — and they could indicate large gold deposits beneath the surface.

Rapid height growth may positively influence fiber length in Swedish spruce wood. A case study investigated wood samples from ...

"In the soil, gold is present in a soluble, liquid form. Carried by water, the gold moves into spruce needles. The tree's microbes can then precipitate this soluble gold back into solid, nanosized ...