NEWBURYPORT — For those wanting to kill a tree, there’s perhaps no better way than driving a copper spike into it. That’s why the recent discovery of three spikes in a ginkgo tree along the ...

Yet ginkgos aren’t the primary cause of local allergies because they’re not particularly allergenic. Ginkgo trees create a golden fall canopy along Gale St. NE. Image by the author. Even in places ...

The trees exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen with the atmosphere through little “mouths” in their leaves and tiny “windows” in their bark. Flowering cherry trees in spring at the New York ...