Some organisms can outlive humans by hundreds or even thousands of years, and the contender for Earth's oldest living thing ...

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, ...

Itching to establish new some trees in your yard? Choosing a beginner-friendly species that will do well in your specific ...

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

Students with the High Rockies Community School (HRCS) have been working on a project for the new Native Plant Garden at ...

Pando is the most extensive known clonal colony of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), originating ... Pando is not just a tree but an entire phenomenon. Its 47,000 genetically identical stems ...

The “Peaches” singer shared a collection of photos taken as the couple—who welcomed son Jack Blues Bieber in August—enjoyed a recent winter getaway in Aspen, Colo. In the final photo of ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

When Hunter S. Thompson ran for sheriff of Aspen, Colo., in 1970, he vowed to rename it “Fat City” to prevent “greed heads, land-rapers and other human jackals from capitalizing on the name ...

Rarely do I think about the adaptations of our northern species that can’t grow thicker fur, fluff up their feathers, or go underground. Trees, for instance, face the same freezing temperatures, wet ...

Regulating temperature is essential for avoiding injury, such as sunscald and frost cracks, and this adaptation is so effective that arborists sometimes wrap light-colored material around planted ...