The focus, however, is largely on some 130 Lombardy poplar trees lining the Sims Way entrance to the city. Last year, incidents at the Boat Haven involving nearby trees and arcing power lines spurred ...

Super trees that suck up and destroy toxic chemicals from the air and water faster than regular trees are the latest creation by scientists at the University of Washington. When the scientists ...

One hundred and thirty towering poplars have greeted people as they entered the city for generations. To stream KING 5 on your phone, you need the KING 5 app. Download the KING 5 app ...

The tweaked poplars had names like Kookaburra and Baboon, which indicated which “parent” tree they were cloned from, and were interspersed with a roughly equal number of unmodified trees.

But trees like poplar take years to reach maturity, rendering this approach slow and possibly leading to the loss of desirable traits. Now, researchers led by Prof. Wout Boerjan ...

A start-up has created poplar trees that are genetically engineered to grow larger and suck up more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than standard trees do. This month, workers planted rows of ...

EVANS, Ga. — There’s a lot of talk about trees these days in northeast Georgia. Specifically, the trees lining fairways and towering over greens at the region’s big-time golf courses.