Hummingbirds Will Flock To Your Feeder When You Hang It At The Perfect Height

So you have a hummingbird feeder, but aren't seeing as many feathered friends as you hoped. Here's why the height of your ...
Virginia Connection Newspapers

Money Does Grow On Trees

Virginia’s Department of Forestry strives to see many more native trees planted in the Commonwealth. For the second year in a row, they are willing to give money away to make that happen. DOF has $800 ...

A.I.’s First Big Math Breakthrough Is Not What It Seems

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...
CalMatters

Thousands of Joshua trees are dying as the Mojave region develops. They must be saved

The sun sets at Joshua Tree National Park, a vast protected area in Southern California, on Aug. 26, 2025. Photo by Tayfun Coskun, Anadolu via Getty Images Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit ...
Castanet

Planted trees do not make a forest

On the B.C. government website, you can read the following: “B.C. is a world leader in sustainable forest management with leading-edge environmental practices. 94% of British Columbia is designated as ...
Macleans.ca

Suzanne Simard Speaks for the Trees

In the late ’90s, Suzanne Simard started what can only be (indelicately) described as a firestorm in the forestry world. Her Ph.D. findings, published in the renowned journal Nature, argued that trees ...
PBS

Tulips Turf Problems Tree Care & Garden Pests

Visit a stunning Nebraska tulip farm featuring over 400,000 tulips, and answer viewer questions. In this episode of Backyard Farmer, we visit a stunning Nebraska tulip farm featuring over 400,000 ...
Scientific American

The million-dollar math problem hardly anyone is trying to solve

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...
Seattle Times

Gardening under trees: A privilege, not a problem

Perhaps you’ve inherited a mature Douglas fir canopy. Or, maybe your garden was sunnier a few years ago, but as nearby trees filled in, the light equation shifted. Many gardeners complain about ...
Mongabay

Australia’s declining tree health is a slow-burning crisis (commentary)

Some of the most serious threats to our forests do not arrive with smoke or headlines. They move quietly, through bark and new growth, weakening ecosystems long before we notice. Without sustained ...
Zanesville Times Recorder

An old elm’s decline mirrors a larger problem for Ohio trees

Writing this, I am experiencing a real dilemma and would welcome any comments or suggestions as to what I need to do. Part way down my rolling backyard sits a huge, old elm tree. It has provided shade ...