Finally, never bury the tree trunk or apply any kind of material against the trunk. Covered ‘trunk flares’ can decay years down the road just when trees should be looking their best.

A new study provides the first estimates of lightning-killed trees, a crucial figure for understanding Earth's carbon cycle.

Because they were delayed by the pandemic, the piece is still a work in progress – it presently incorporates 12 tree-fork nodes, but should ultimately include approximately 40.

The researchers found that people often summarize entire episodes of a story into single sentences, leading to the conclusion that narratives are stored in memory as tree structures. In this model, ...