"Not all trees are the same." Scientists find hidden world under one of the oldest trees first appeared on The Cool Down.

The researchers discovered a hidden world of life among the roots of Chile's ancient alerce trees. Here's why that's important.

The temperate rainforests of the Chilean Coast Range are home to a spectacular array of life: iridescent blue lizards, tiny wild cats called kodkods, and curly vines of waxy red bellflowers. Towering ...

When most people think of national parks in the American West, places like Yosemite, Zion, or the Grand Canyon spring to mind ...

As Pennsylvania Hospital -- America's first chartered hospital -- marks its 275th anniversary this year, the hospital also plans to celebrate the occasion by transforming its historic Pine Building ...

Who knows more about time than one of the oldest living organisms on Earth? In western society, time is measured by human constructs. However, a new permanent installation at the Nevada Museum of Art ...

The sewn hide, cordage and needles show how Indigenous Americans used complex technology to survive the freezing temperatures at the end of the last ice age and as a means of social expression. When ...

GRAYLING, MI -- Tucked up north along I-75 is a forest of 300-year-old trees standing at 150 feet tall. Nestled among them is a visitor center that just reopened with a facelift worth $1.25 million.

It was older than the Roman Empire, the Egyptian pyramids and Christianity. Then someone cut it down. Now known as Prometheus, the bristlecone pine tree that found its home on Wheeler Peak in Nevada's ...