Trees have always been part of our lives, providing us with oxygen, shade, food, and beauty. These trees, which stood tall and strong for centuries, are now only memories preserved in stories, records ...

Conservation groups in Guam are renewing their calls to action as the last mature specimen of a rare tree has died due to military construction on the island. A live-fire machine gun range was opened ...

Each year, species are going extinct at an accelerating rate that is alarming conservationists. This fear has increased ...

Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as perplexed experts for centuries.

The world’s trees are in critical danger, with a staggering number of tree species teetering on the brink of extinction, according to a new global analysis released Monday. The decade-long project ...

In the heart of Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island, a species long thought lost is taking root once again. The toromiro ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new effort to save critically endangered plant life, conservationists diffused the first set of bred “dinosaur trees" ...

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced at least 40 percent of tree species around the world are at risk of extinction, according to a Monday release from the ...