I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, and there between the buildings and the cars was a gorgeous aspen tree ...

Quaking aspen can be found from Alaska to Mexico and ... each with its own trunk, branches, leaves and a shared root system (Figure 2). All of these structures arose from a single aspen seed ...

Some organisms can outlive humans by hundreds or even thousands of years, and the contender for Earth's oldest living thing ...

Here, this lone male quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides ... placed a hydrophone inside a hollow at the base of a branch and threaded it down to the tree's roots, not expecting to hear much.