This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was chopped down in Rensselaer County, New York. Statistically speaking, that’s unusual. While New York state is one of the 10 leading producers of ...
“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 ...
A hundred years ago, Maryland’s first state forester, Fred Besley, issued a challenge to residents: Go out in the woods and find the biggest tree you can. Then collect its measurements and send them ...
I don't know about you, but I'm tired of seeing AI used in place of actual search results in my web browser or used to summarize whatever I'm looking for. Google has become useless because of this, ...
Evacuation warning lifted in Cisco Grove as South Yuba River levels stabilize Good news for residents in Cisco Grove: the evacuation warning along the South Yuba River has been lifted.Officials say ...
The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...
On Verona Island, at the end of a dirt road, a couple dozen wizened apple trees stand sentry in a grassy field sloping down to the river. To the untrained eye, it's a bunch of old trees. To apple ...
The city of Portland is getting greener and soon cooler. More than a dozen trees have been planted in the Lents neighborhood since the beginning of the year. That's an area considered one of the ...
Sweet pine o’ mine! It’s time to pick a tree. (Fifty of them, in fact.) Try to find all the sentient Tannenbaums. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript ...
A binary star system, designated D9, has been discovered orbiting the Milky Way's supermassive black hole (SMBH), providing the first compelling evidence that previously enigmatic G objects are ...
In a polytunnel on the Scottish island of Bute, thousands of spindly Scots pine seedlings are growing. On the surface, nothing could appear more commonplace than Scots pine growing in Scotland. But ...