A 99-million-year-old firefly fossil is shedding new light on the mysterious origins of their glowing lantern. Many of us might feel a warm glow when we remember the fields fireflies illuminated ...

The invasive beetle was found in the Redwood Shores community ... Other signs include wet staining, gumming (thick resin or sap produced by the tree), frass (insect waste), boring dust and ...

The Tullynally collection includes the two great rarities for tree aficionados – so-called “discovery trees” because they are the only two new genera to be discovered in recent years. They are ...

"This redwood has been a cornerstone for my family," the poster ... and car tires come from the sap of rubber trees. The plants even help with ingredients used in toothpaste, shampoo, and shaving ...

In December 1997, a 23-year-old Julia Butterfly Hill climbed into a 200-foot redwood tree, known as Luna, in Northern California. Her mission was simple but profound: to save this ancient tree ...

In 1974, a group of Hastings Rotary Club members took to Te Mata Park with their spades, hammers and stakes to plant a grove of redwood trees. Some trees died due to dry conditions, but many of ...

That small stretch of sidewalk has become the talk of the office, thanks to what seems to be an unusually copious amount of tarry tree sap on the ground, creating a sticky mess. Jason Wells is a ...

Harvesting maple sap required trudging through the woods, drilling a tap into and hanging a bucket onto hundreds if not thousands of trees, and then waiting patiently for the right climatic ...

Nine people were injured in a school bus crash Wednesday morning in Redwood County. At around 8:15 a.m., the Redwood County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a crash on Highway 7 at the ...