In this excerpt from her new book Tree Notes: A Year in the Company of Trees, National Geographic Explorer Nalini M. Nadkarni reveals how tiny “windows” in the bark of trees help them respire. What’s ...

Nothing beats a cherry blossom in the spring. The hard part is choosing which one. Will it be a deep dark crimson, a blush, a powder pink or a milky white? Or will you go for a very unusual sultry ...

There’s no more visible sign of spring in Washington than the flowering of cherry blossom trees around the Tidal Basin and across the region. But how much do you really know about the trees, their ...

WASHINGTON – The nation's capital is prematurely grieving over the expected loss of Stumpy, the city's favorite little cherry tree on the Tidal Basin. But a plan to give the little tree new life by ...

The National Park Service projects the cherry blossom trees that line the Tidal Basin in D.C. will likely be at peak bloom from March 28 to 31. That projection puts the trees at peak bloom later in ...