As the weather warms up in preparation for a New England summer, many people are heading back outdoors to adore Massachusetts' nature, from flowers to mountains to trees. While Massachusetts has ...

Humans may desire immortality, but it is trees that are garnering more success in this pursuit. One of them is now nearly five centuries old, having witnessed all the ups and downs of multiple ...

Discover the world's most ancient trees, some surviving millennia as single individuals and others through regenerative root ...

A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have weathered through tons of challenges. Scientists have dated them, and locals ...

In 1964, graduate student Donald Rusk Currey asked for permission to cut down a tree growing on Wheeler Peak in Nevada's Great Basin National Park. Though there are different accounts on the ...

In the quiet reaches of California’s White Mountains, one tree has survived through 4,800 years of storms, droughts, empires, and empires' collapse. Known as Methuselah, this bristlecone pine has ...

This Great Basin bristlecone pine holds the distinction of being the oldest known non-clonal tree, with scientists placing ...

Sitting on top of a rocky cliff in Italy's Pollino National Park is Europe's oldest tree. To the untutored eye, the plant looks dead, but it's actually quite alive and healthy. In fact, considering ...

The world’s oldest cypress trees and the history of North Carolina’s first life-saving stations. UNC Wilmington students paddle deep into the Black River, where some of the world’s oldest living ...

Fire crews made strong progress battling the Silver fire in Inyo County on Monday, halting forward progress of the blaze, which continues to threaten some of the oldest trees in the world. Crews ...