The story of nature tucked away in Kazakhstan’s Tian Shan Mountains, Kaindy Lake, seems like something out of a dream. Tree trunks poke eerily out of the water, ghostly and silent. It’s strange.

If a tree farts in the forest, does it make a sound? No, but it does add a smidge of greenhouse gas to the atmosphere. Gases released by dead trees — dubbed “tree farts” — account for roughly ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Along the Atlantic coast of the United States, climate-driven sea level rise is sending salt water increasingly farther inland. The encroaching brine is killing off coastal woodlands in places like ...

As sea levels rise, saltwater is inching into wetlands and forests, killing trees and creating eerie ghost forests on coastlines worldwide. With land and water constantly shifting, forests die and are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the idea of ghost trees may sound like a Halloween tale, the causes behind their ghoulish-looking, but real, appearances are ...

Researchers wanted to know if different communities of microbes are making methane gas inside the soils or in the dead trees, which are also known as snags. They found that although the methane gas is ...

Extreme weather in the past week has jeopardized one of golf’s most recognizable visuals. The ghost tree at Bandon Dunes' Old Macdonald—a large, stately Port Orford Cedar situated on the third hole ...