Anywhere else in the world, more trees would be a blessing. But in the far north of Alaska, they’re a reckoning. As the Arctic warms up to four times as fast as the rest of the planet, white spruce ...

In this episode of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces the White Spruce. This species is found in the North Woods of Northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

We were pushing through head-high willows along a brushy caribou trail, five days into our week-long trek across Alaska's Noatak valley, when my hiking partner, Brad Meiklejohn, startled me with a ...

A 60-year-old, 48-foot white spruce tree will soon make its way from Nova Scotia to the Boston Common as part of a more than 100-year-old tradition. Each year, Nova Scotia sends Massachusetts a ...

Now that Halloween has come and gone, Boston Common will soon be decorated with an early Christmas present — a 45-foot, 37-year-old white spruce tree sent from Nova Scotia. The Christmas tree delivery ...

MEDINA, Minn. — A line of severe storms that swept through Minnesota and Wisconsin on Thursday took down countless trees. But for one Minnesota family, the loss of a white spruce was too big to ...