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, ...

Populus tremuloides, the quaking aspen of the North American continent, stands as one of the most easily recognized, most beautiful and most admired of all tree species. In order to help ...

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

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

Pando is the most extensive known clonal colony of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), originating from a single seedling. Weighing an estimated 6,000 tons—roughly the same as 40 blue whales ...

Pando is a quaking aspen tree found in Utah's Fishlake National Forest in Sevier County. Looking at pictures of it, you'd be forgiven for wondering which one among the hundreds of trunks is that ...

I’m pretty sure this was a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) or as many of us New Englanders know them, a quaking poplar. When I think of a "cheery" tree, I think of quaking aspens.