Darley Dale, Derbyshire: Perhaps more than any other tree, this species captivates us with its monumental imperfection Almost immediately on entering St Helen’s churchyard I could see its most ...

Some have stood for thousands of years, yet trees enjoy little legal protection. Campaigners aim to change that A dark green tree stands on the north side of the medieval stone church in Defynnog. The ...

In a quiet valley, one of Europe’s last ancient yew forests still stands, with trees believed to be thousands of years old. Yew wood was once prized for longbows, and centuries of demand helped erase ...

In 2023 a research group from Aarhus University in Denmark found that light woodland and open vegetation dominated Europe's temperate forests before Homo sapiens. In a new study, recently published in ...

Pile of subfossil yew trunks on the edge of an agricultural field, north of Peterborough, UK. Photo credit: T. Bebchuk The buried remains of vast forests of ancient yew trees that once covered the ...

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Clippings from a centuries-old yew in Scotland will help form the world's first DNA yew hedge at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, garden officials said. The ...

Sarah Knapton is the Science Editor of The Telegraph and has covered all areas of science since 2013. She has previously been named Science Journalist of The Year, was Highly Commended at the Society ...

Britain's oldest tree could be dead in fifty years - because tourists keep ripping off its branches and keeping them as souvenirs, environmentalists have warned. The Fortingall Yew in Perthshire is ...

A Scottish tree that is believed by some to be the oldest in Europe could be dead in fifty years - because tourists keep ripping off its branches and keeping them as souvenirs, environmentalists have ...

A 500-year-old tree discovered in a comprehensive survey at a nationally important landscape has been described as 'a jewel of a find.' The 45ft (14m) high yew, with a diameter of more than 3.5ft ...