I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, ...

Admirers frequently note the striking white bark of quaking aspen. This bark lives and carries out photosynthesis, attributes that make it unique among North American trees and likely contribute ...

In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that ...

Underneath our feet, the very earth we stand upon is supported by quadrillions of tiny growths that wend their way amid the ...

What caught my eye was the bark-it was clearly green-almost luminous against the swirling snow and gray mountains. I’m pretty sure this was a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) or as many of us ...