As Beijing undergoes unprecedented construction around the city for the 2008 Olympic Games, many ancient trees have been rediscovered along with historic relics. Though archeologists and others ...

But the Woodland Trust charity warns that these trees - known as ancient or veteran specimens - have "almost no" legal protection. It comes after a centuries-old oak tree was felled in ...

BILLINGS – For more than 5,000 years, a stand of whitebark pine trees in the Beartooth Mountains were preserved in an ice patch. During an ancient warm period, the trees had grown at an elevatio ...

The Michael oak in Midlothian is among the contenders - it's name is probably a corruption of the Scots word "meikle", meaning big A dozen ... last surviving trees from an ancient Scottish forest.

YAKUSHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture—An ancient giant has fallen in the forest ... 10's sluggish path of destruction, it snapped the trunk of a massive tree estimated to be around 3,000 years ...

It’s also a reminder that, even though many trees have ways of healing over superficial wounds, ancient trees and the cultural histories they signify need protection as Earth dries out and heats up.