A 60-foot Cottonwood tree fell over, blocking the driveway of a home on Country Club Drive on the west side of Rapid City.

Matthew Beckman, head of the biology department at Augsburg University, arrived at his office on the morning of Aug. 27 to find the giant cottonwood tree outside his office had fallen. “I pulled into ...

“The rainforest provides a perfect growth environment that gave us so many great candidate trees to select from, and in the end, I know we found the perfect Sitka spruce to represent Alaska and ...

Black cottonwood trees in a greenhouse at Oregon State University. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

because their pickup truck was buried by uprooted trees. Ketchikan is surrounded by the Tongass National Forest, a temperate rainforest that encompasses much of southeast Alaska. Landslides strike ...

He was one victim of a 1,100-foot landslide in the coastal city of Ketchikan in southern Alaska on Sunday that ... The slide sent a dense wave of snapped trees, toppled power poles and dirt ...

An Alaska community is mourning the loss of a father who died in the Sunday landslide that left three others injured and prompted dozens of homes to evacuate. Land detached from a hillside in ...

A post shared by Joshua Tree National Park (@joshuatreenps) The south entrance on Cottonwood is still open, but all the facilities are closed. All the other areas of the park remain open.

It's Friday the 13th! Let's take a look at some weather phobias ...

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy declared an emergency ... When logging or fire destroys trees, the loss of root structure can weaken soil. Rain that isn’t being sucked up by plants can saturate ...

DRYDEN – The City of Dryden is looking to make public art out of two tree trunks at Cooper Park. Artists in the area are invited to submit expressions of interest to carve two large cottonwood ...

Whether it’s the wild colors in the sky, or the fiery yellow-orange-red leaves on the trees, fall is a great time to explore Alaska. And winter will be here soon enough. Scott McMurren is an ...