Each year we drape a tree in decorations, whether that be garland, ornaments, or tinsel, and grow increasingly excited as ...

“We show[ed] that Ficus insipda tree cores can be used as a biomonitor for characterizing the spatial and potentially the temporal footprint of mercury emissions from artisanal gold mining in ...

“We’re starting to see that it changed a lot.” Other studies have also used tree rings to track mercury levels, but not in gold-mining regions of the tropics. “While the technique itself ...

Prosecutors in Brazil’s Amapá state have warned of an illegal gold mine operating just 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) from second-highest known tree in the Brazilian Amazon — an 85-meter (279-foot ...

New research has found that some tropical trees in the Peruvian Amazon can be used to monitor mercury pollution from gold mining ... the possibility of using tree cores instead to detect the ...

We recently returned from a trip to Virginia to visit family and spent time being “Leaf Peepers.” There’s something magical ...

Gold is the priciest rare-earth metal on the ... The resin is produced when the tree suffers from a fungal infection, specifically a type of Phaeoacremonium mold, P. parasitica, which causes ...