The Kapok Tree Inn was a legendary, grand-scale dining destination in Clearwater, Florida, a celebrated 'escape' for locals and tourists alike for decades. Built in the 1950s around a massive, century ...

A sustainable fashion brand called tentree has started using “the world’s most sustainable fiber” in its range of clothing. The material, called kapok, is an innovative natural fiber found in the ...

Putting on gray work gloves and yellow helmets, students from local elementary schools Thursday morning helped celebrate Florida Arbor Day by planting a kapok tree at Phipps Ocean Park in Palm Beach. ...

Celebrated in Buddhist temples and cultivated for its wood and cottony fibers, the kapok tree now is upsetting an idea that biologists have clung to for decades: the notion that African and South ...

BOYNTON BEACH — Continuing to chip away at its massive Town Square redevelopment agenda, Boynton Beach this week started uprooting two pillars of its downtown-area physical landscape. The city on ...

A prayer and a life jacket are just about all there is to rely on when a torpedoed seaman takes the big jump from his sinking ship. Kapok—the silky, white, feather-soft down from the pods of the kapok ...