Perhaps the most remarkable feature of all species, living and extinct, is their extraordinary interconnectivity. Each species on Earth can trace its roots back to the same cluster of ancestral ...

Rosie is a freelance writer living in London. She has covered everything from ancient Egyptian temples to exciting medical breakthroughs, but she particularly enjoys writing about wildlife, ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Robbinston native Winnie Johnson grew up on her parents Christmas tree farm in nearby Perry. Today, she carries on the family tradition as co-owner of a local Christmas tree ...

Back in 1963, “Mr. Willowby’s Christmas tree/Came by special delivery” in the beloved holiday picture book Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree by Robert Barry. Now, 62 years later, Mr. Willowby is again ...

ITHACA, N.Y. (WBNG) -- In his new book, “Evergreen: The Trees that Shaped America,” Cornell University professor of practice Trent Preszler showcases the history of the iconic American trees. The book ...

In the Middle Ages, prophecies of a coming global collapse proliferated across Europe. Conditions were ripe for a powerful strain of apocalypticism to take hold: Population growth, the rise of ...

Carol Kratz (left) of La Crosse, Wis., gets a lesson in how to tie a knot using a strip of mulberry tree fibers from Nana Takano, a second-year student at the Center for the Book, as volunteers for ...

Music is blending into an algorithm-generated playlist, cinema is dominated by blockbuster movies from decades-old franchises, and the rest of the cultural scene is as flat and bland as a pancake.

Audrey Glickman showed up for morning minyan today — as she has nearly every morning since Oct. 27, 2018, when she survived the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Glickman, now 68, was ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — It’s a common problem that deserves its own term, “tree blindness.” It happens when you’re strolling through a neighborhood and realize you can’t identify any of the trees that ...

Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, that it becomes more than just a useful buzzword and grows to define an entire moment. “Enshittification,” coined ...