What a 1,600-year-old New Zealand tree can tell us about climate change Buried in mud for millennia, some of the hulking kauri trees in rural Northland are portals to the past, present, and future ...

Humans fare poorly after having their heads chopped off, but for some trees losing their tops just means the opening of a second act. Foresters have long marveled at so-called living stumps, tree ...

It sounds like something straight out of "Stranger Things," but a forest "superorganism" is keeping a nearly-dead tree stump alive. The stump of a kauri tree in New Zealand is still alive thanks ...

Beneath the bogs of New Zealand’s Northland is a massive Ngāwhā kauri, living from 41,000 to 42,500 years ago, which gives an isolated, unbroken record of a period when Earth’s magnetic field declined ...

Maori step in to save sacred tree New Zealand too slow to act against deadly disease, leaders say March 13, 2022 at 3:53 a.m. by The New York Times ...

Johno Smith works on a graft to repair damage to the Paturoa Road Kauri tree which was attacked early this morning in Titirangi / Photo Jason Oxenham Tree protester Johno Smith has been charged ...

Six months after the first dead kauri trees were found, at Maungaroa Ridge, near popular Piha Beach, scientists named a likely culprit: a microscopic fungus, a type of Phytophthora.

When two ecologists hiking in New Zealand discovered this stump, they had to figure out how it could still be alive. By JoAnna Klein In a rain forest near Auckland, New Zealand, a leafless kauri ...

Maori step in to save sacred tree New Zealand too slow to act against deadly disease, leaders say by The New York Times | March 13, 2022 at 3:53 a.m.

But while root grafts are common between living trees of the same species, Leuzinger and Bader were interested in why a living kauri tree would want to keep a nearby stump alive.

It's a giant tree so awe-inspiring that the local Maoris named it Tane Mahuta, or "God of the Forest." But a sad truth, they add, is that before industry and disease claimed most of this country's ...

If a tree falls in a forest, is it really dead? A peculiar tree stump in New Zealand is testing this question. Scientists found a tree stump of the species Agathis australis, known as the kauri ...