Wandering salamanders control their veritable grip by pumping blood into and draining it from translucent toes, as they glide ...

The trees’ most important lesson / Is that like the roots, / We need connection.” More questions. Does Jesse have to be from New York? Is the Redwood team convinced that a Broadway audience ...

Clockwise: Michael Greenstein examines the bark of a Chinese elm in his collection in Los Altos; A liquidambar, also known as ...

Semper Virens. Heartwood. A knotty growth of bark, the burls are filled with unspotted bud tissue—should a redwood tree fall, a burl can sprout a new tree. The burls, which fetch thousands of ...

At San Vicente Redwoods near Boulder Creek, scientists use sonic technology to study fungal decay in fire-damaged trees while ...