From bark patterns to pit-and-mound topography, these 10 clues help hikers identify old-growth forests on their next ...

Deep in America's mountains lies a bristlecone pine, the world's oldest tree, predating the Pyramids and Stonehenge. For over ...

Alerce trees, native to Chile's coast and the foothills of the Andes, are renowned for their remarkable longevity. Some trees ...

Students explore the ancient cypress trees of North Carolina’s timeless Three Sisters Swamp. In southeastern North Carolina’s Three Sisters Swamp, UNC-Wilmington students and guides journey through ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Not many living organisms have been around long enough to ...

Explore the world's oldest forests, from Australia's 180-million-year-old Daintree to Japan's Yakushima with trees over 7,000 ...

Human beings have been growing their own food for thousands of years. This fruit may have been the very first fruit we ...

On a talus-strewn slope in eastern California’s mountains, a gnarled tree twists toward the sky. It is Methuselah, a Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) and one of the world’s oldest trees.

In the temperate rainforests of Chile's Alerce Costero National Park, deep in the ground, is an ancient conifer called ‘Gran ...