Childhood memoriesAnkur Tewari, musician-composer I must admit that I read less books than I should. My preferred genre is ...

In her new book, "The Trees Are Speaking," Lynda Mapes shares what forests are telling us about how to partner with them to ...

Indigenous scientists are hurrying to learn what they can about intact old-growth forests before they are gone.

In 1997, Julia Hill started a tree sit in a California redwood to protest logging efforts ... often with only flying squirrels for company. In her book, Hill described surviving a 70-mile-per-hour ...

Seattle Times reporter Lynda V. Mapes, in an effort to learn more about our forests, overcame her fear and climbed a 200-foot ...

The book combines elements of nature, mysticism, and allegory. It addresses themes such as human connection, perseverance, ...

For early modern writers, conception was an occasion to describe the otherwise indescribable: a woman’s orgasm, supposedly required if she were to conceive successfully. In early modernity, uroscopy ...

The Prince and Princess of Wales are getting ready to take the throne “sooner rather than later,” an insider tells Harper’s ...

A nearly two-century-old magnolia tree said to have been planted by President Andrew Jackson was removed from the South Lawn on Monday, amid concerns the ailing evergreen could pose a safety risk if ...

In celebration of Earth Day, we spoke with the creators of three picture books highlighting underappreciated processes of nature and the conservationists fighting to protect the environment.

The Teaching Regulation Agency heard John Lees had been suffering from stress at work and started self-medicating with alcohol A science teacher drank half a bottle of wine before school and then ...