Scientists in Israel just grew date palm trees from 2,000-year-old seeds, some of which were found in the Dead Sea Scroll caves. The fruit from these trees was so popular in ancient times that even ...

When it comes down to it, L.A.’s palm trees are like the lilies of the field, glorious to behold but neither toiling nor spinning, many of them sucking down water and providing barely enough shade to ...

Fossil evidence reveals that palm trees once thrived in the Canadian Arctic, challenging everything we know about Earth's ...

BEST OF 2021: Forests of Judean date palm trees once covered ancient Israel, from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea. The fruit of the tree symbolised life and prosperity and was praised in ancient ...

Nearly 200 kilometers from the sea, red mangroves thrive in the rainforests along the San Pedro Mártir River on the Yucatán Peninsula. But how did these tangled trees that typically grow in ...