News tagged with juniper trees

Tree-killing pathogen traced back to California

Genetic detective work by an international group of researchers may have solved a decades-long mystery of the source of a devastating tree-killing fungus that has hit six of the world's seven continents.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Poison: It's what's for dinner

As the U.S. Southwest grew warmer from 18,700 to 10,000 years ago, juniper trees vanished from what is now the Mojave Desert, robbing packrats of their favorite food. Now, University of Utah biologists have ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2