From the sweet aroma of baked cookies to the festive family gatherings, Shawn Hundertmark’s mom always put the merry in Christmas. When she died 20 years ago, Hundertmark dedicated his yearly ...

Truphena Muthoni has set a Guinness World Record by hugging a tree for three straight days. https://p.dw.com/p/55BDq Muthoni wore a blindfold for several hours during ...

The tradition of using evergreen trees and plants for winter celebrations predates Christianity. Ancient cultures like the Romans, Egyptians, and Celts used evergreens to symbolize life and the ...

The tree at Cragside has more than 1,300 lights on it. Image copyright: National Trust A giant redwood growing at a National Trust property has officially been declared as the world's tallest living ...

This year's tree is a 75-foot Norway spruce from East Greenbush, New York. The Rockefeller Center tree is lit and the holiday season is underway in New York City. Host Reba McEntire, Marc Anthony, ...

First lady Melania Trump will receive the official White House Christmas for 2025 on Nov. 24, marking the first time a Michigan farm has provided the iconic holiday staple in more than four decades.

Shopping for a Christmas tree? Eleven national forests across California are issuing permits to people hoping to decorate their homes with evergreens this holiday season. The U.S. Forest Service ...

Flowers are truly amazing. They come in every colour you can imagine. Did you know there are over 400,000 types of flowering plants worldwide? That's a considerable number. Each flower has its own ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Trees older than empires are not as rare as you might think ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Residents of the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea are on a “green migration,” contributor Thibault Le Pivain reports for Mongabay. The ...

A startup called American Castanea has joined the quest to revive the American chestnut tree, the first step in its plan to give forests a genetic upgrade. Under a slice-of-heaven sky, 150 acres of ...