A friend mentioned a phrase I had never heard before — tree climbing. It sounded baffling. Climbing trees as a sport? Who ...

Tree climbing is typically regarded as a happy childhood activity. However, one company is helping people of all ages discover, or rediscover, one of life’s simple pleasures. Expert tree climber Tim ...

When preparing to remove a diseased or dead tree, you may need to climb into the tree to remove some limbs before cutting the trunk. You can use a pair of tree-climbing spikes to help you move up the ...

I was about 100 feet up the tree when I dropped my pen. Some ten feet below me, Tim Kovar, probably the world’s most sought-after tree-climbing expert, shot out his right hand to catch it. Kovar, a ...

After observing how many forestry courses gave students limited chances to learn through hands-on experiences, one professor attended a workshop to gain tree-climbing skills and pass them on to her ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The bulk of life in the rainforest is found the leafy layers of the canopy. But little was known about this world until relatively recently, when ...

Calling all arborists: The International Tree Climbing Championship will return to the Gateway City this fall.

Do trees grow from seeds that goats eat and later expel? That is a question that has long bedeviled ecologists. Let's say it's a small seed. The goat will swallow it, poop it out and a tree could ...

In Morocco, goats help disperse the seeds of local argan trees by spitting them out. This way of disseminating seeds might actually be more common than scientists have previously thought, according to ...