Seán Duke is the Science and Health Editor for Newsweek, based in Dublin, Ireland. He has 25 years of experience as a science journalist, and editor with The Irish Times, the Irish Independent ...

Red pine is a shade intolerant, long-lived species and is one of the most genetically uniform forest trees, reaching heights of 60 to 150 feet. It’s latin name quite literally means the pine that ...

“These beautiful birds are making ... needs to be done to protect the long-leaf pine forests these woodpeckers and hundreds of other species call home.” While other woodpeckers excavate cavities in ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the whitebark pine will be listed as threatened under ... “These exceedingly beautiful trees are an icon of our western mountains and they need ...