VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A local Italian group launched an online petition urging Pope Francis, the Vatican and others to stop the “fir tree-icide” of cutting down a 200-year-old red pine to ...

The Sheba tree. Credit: Guy Eisner/Nature Communications ... The seed, estimated to be over 1,000 years old, required a lot of special preparation and care. But it worked. The 1,000-year-old ...

An honor co-owner Jim Cartner said his father dreamed of. “When my father was alive we used to walk all over this farm and try to select the winning tree and we never did, but this past year we won.” ...

Under the racial gaze, the visibly “mixed” person is often characterized as a minority. The intention here was to move beyond the old assumptions of what humans would look like in the year 3000. The ...

Residents of a town in Cornwall are stumped after a much-loved tree in the grounds of the parish church was cut down last week, seemingly without public consultation, writes Local Democracy Reporter ...

It had to be around 100 years old, tall enough ... They traveled more than 3,000 kilometers to find Russia’s main Christmas tree.

making it the world’s largest tree by volume. No one has ever climbed the 2,200-year-old tree that was before this year. Researchers led by Anthony Ambrose, executive director of the Ancient ...

Eight-year-old boys are a discerning crowd. They’re no longer little kids, but aren’t quite tweens. They probably still play with toys but also gravitate toward video games, sports and maybe ...