Walk through a park in California, Australia, or Hawaii and you might notice something odd about the tall, narrow conifers dotting the landscape: they're leaning. Not randomly, the way a tree bent by wind or crowded growth might lean, but in a strangely consistent direction. It turns out this isn't a local quirk — it's a global pattern, and it took a curious botanist to notice … [Read more...] about Why Do Cook Pine Trees Always Lean Toward the Equator?