Tanjil Bren, in Victoria’s Central Highlands, holds a stand of mountain ash where the trunks of the biggest trees now measure more than a metre across. They stand in plots that foresters cut hard in ...

Scientists have found that a single tree can be home to a trillion microbial cells — an invisible ecosystem that is only beginning to be understood. A black oak in the Yale-Myers Forest of northern ...

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...