Gold remains a valuable material and while it doesn’t grow on trees, a new study published in the journal Environmental ...

Money does grow on trees! Scientists in Finland have discovered gold embedded in the needles of Norway spruce trees.

Spruce tree needles contain tiny gold particles — and they could indicate large gold deposits beneath the surface.

A new study has, for the first time, uncovered a connection between bacteria living in Norway spruce needles and gold ...

Bacteria inside Norway spruce needles convert dissolved gold from mineral-rich soils into solid nanoparticles, revealing a ...

A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), finds that black spruce trees — a key species on the boreal landscape for millennia — are losing their resilience ...

Remember acid rain? In the 1970s and ‘80s, scientists found that rain 100 times more acidic than normal was harming the mountain forests of New England and New York. The pollution was linked to fossil ...

The needles of a common spruce contain gold dust. This surprising discovery involves an invisible collaboration with the microbial world. This observation opens up new mining perspectives.