A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

The 100-acre tree nursery at George O. White State Forest, in Licking, Missouri, serves 13,000 customers a year — in the Show ...

The South Carolina Governor’s School for Science & Mathematics (GSSM) hosted a dedication ceremony on Wednesday, April 16, to ...

The AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps appears to have been discontinued under cuts to the federal government led ...

UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California's High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation ...

Millions of trees flourish on Nebraska’s once treeless plains and in the heart of the Arbor Day state, one tree stands tall ...

New agreement would give Winnebago County ownership of UW-Oshkosh at Fox Cities campus, and Weis Earth Science Museum collection to Outagamie County.

A playground in Door County and a trail and public square in Madison were named as some of the best public spaces in the U.S. by USA TODAY readers.

"We just went out and did it," Honni Al-Juma, who helped rescue the raccoon. Al-Juma and his co-worker AJ Kisley were spending their Monday like any other weekday, working for their car detailing ...

From the floodplain forests of the upper Mississippi River to the long coast of Lake Michigan, Wisconsin is rich in wetlands.

A shortage of cocoa beans is driving up the cost to make chocolate — especially for small chocolatiers. That means people ...