The American Academy of Sleep Medicine considers sleep essential to health. Necessary for cognitive functioning, it's also an ...

Sometimes, Jon Richard says, he’ll be up in the canopy of a large Missouri tree, doing work of some kind, and will stop for a moment to sit still on a perch.

Our much-ballyhooed storm system, now spinning across northern Alabam, may still kick up a few rumbles of thunder while you're trying to sleep in on Saturday, but it will be the winds that follow that ...

Destructive winds during storms and cyclones often cause tree failures, especially through uprooting and stem breakage. However, how trees respond to wind under various forest configurations and ...