New techniques have enabled researchers in Sweden to begin decoding how one of Northern Europe's most important coniferous ...

We were pushing through head-high willows along a brushy caribou trail, five days into our week-long trek across Alaska's Noatak valley, when my hiking partner, Brad Meiklejohn, startled me with a ...

Spruce shrubs and trees are conifers from the genus Picea, which includes 35 species. Spruce trees and shrubs are characterized by a branch structure, called a pulvinus, where the needles attach. This ...

Examining a long-lived forest, researchers have found that Black Spruce trees, which dominate the northern forests of North America, succumb about five years after being weakened by environmental ...

Many homeowners in northern Minnesota are asking the questions: Are my spruce trees dying? Should I be spraying something on them to help? Your spruce trees are not dying and it’s too late in the ...

The Ips typographus, or larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle, is an invasive species Planting of new spruce trees is being banned in parts of East Anglia and South East England as part of ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Spruce trees grow at either high altitudes in the southern Appalachians to ...

Q: What's killing Colorado blue spruce trees? My parents just had one cut down in front of their house, which made me start to take notice to others dying in the area. I have noticed dying spruces ...