Few organizations can rival the National Park Service when it comes to April Fools’ Day pranks. Despite the Trump ...

California’s giant redwood trees are some of the tallest and most impressive trees on the planet. Standing beneath them can feel like looking up at massive wooden skyscrapers. Even more incredible, in ...

Purple needlegrass is a popular native grass for small gardens or open meadows, but its long prickly awns can be a nuisance ...

Hyperion was discovered on August 25, 2006. Its height, then, was measured at 379 feet and 1.2 inches.

A large Redwood tree fell across U.S. Highway 199Crescent City is in Del Norte County.The giant tree came down at Mile Post ...

Menzel had come upon the story of Julia Butterfly Hill, an environmental activist who lived in a California redwood tree for more than two years from 1997 to 1999 to save it from being cut down by ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

which was once fined heavily for cutting down a 176-year-old giant redwood tree at one of its housing development sites. At this stage they said it was too early to say what creditors were owed ...

Together with the oceans, they are one of the two most important carbon sinks, due to their capacity to store carbon in the soil and in tree biomass. As such, promoting fast-growing trees could ...