Is any of God’s creations nobler than the oak tree?

What do bunnies, baskets, colored eggs, egg hunts and candies all have in common? Each of these traditional components of secular Easter observances can be traced back to the German ...

New machinery is tipping the balance in the decades-long battle to clear rhododendron in Killarney National Park, according ...

If I told you that I visited Notre-Dame de Paris in March of this year and that, while there, I had begun to get this strange ...

Stone Age humans mastered fire technology during Earth's harshest climate period 23,000 years ago, creating hearths that ...

We're all familiar with apples and pears, but there are many other fruit trees that produce edible fruit. Perhaps not as ...

Ash trees are Britain’s third most abundant tree in forest areas and the most common hedgerow trees. Native European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is an important keystone species in the UK and across ...

For a brief period of a few weeks in the summer, male stag beetles (Lucanus cervus) fly in search of a mate. They use their spectacular jaws to wow the ladies and conduct dramatic duels with their ...

A hidden jungle of mature white cedar trees guards the entrance to a secret world in Door County. It’s a land where ospreys ...

If your favorite ash isn’t dead or dying yet, it will be soon as new communities are becoming infested daily. Here are some replacement options.

When volcanoes like Alaska’s Mount Spurr erupt, the ash can damage people’s lungs, smother crops and kill animals, and the ...