Before you reach for the rake, find out whether all those fallen acorns are actually a problem for your lawn.

Growing an oak tree from an acorn can be a fun and rewarding project. By planting the seed of a tree that could potentially live for hundreds of years, providing shade and a habitat for wildlife, ...

When autumn arrives, acorns roll around in parks and along the sides of sidewalks.Round ones, long and thin ones, stout ones.

Last autumn, I hardly saw any acorns in the nearby woods. My child searched the ground for several laps, and all we could ...

If you have oak trees in your neighborhood, perhaps you’ve noticed that some years the ground is carpeted with their acorns, and some years there are hardly any. Biologists call this pattern, in which ...

If you have oak trees in your neighborhood, perhaps you’ve noticed that some years the ground is carpeted with their acorns, and some years there are hardly any. Biologists call this pattern, in which ...

The acorn is the fruit of the many varieties of oak trees, and contains a baby oak tree embryo. After sitting dormant all winter long, the embryo will spring to life and a thick oak tree root will ...

Monarch Research Project wants Iowans to know that the acorn is mighty. “Most people don’t realize that (the oak tree) is a keystone element in the ecosystem,” said Clark McLeod, cofounder of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maybe you've been plonked on the head one too many times while out in the woods. Or you've come across a patch of forest floor ...

It’s “raining” acorns across Maine, pounding rooftops and pummeling decks, and the state’s worsening drought is likely to blame. At Felicia Knight’s home in Scarborough, several oaks have put out so ...