If you’ve driven or walked down a street and spotted tree trunks wrapped with sheet metal, you may have been stumped. These reflective metal cuffs can be seen everywhere from Charlotte to Los Angeles ...

A macabre Christmas tree safety warning from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) has observers noting its likeness to metal album artwork. After all, the fiery skeleton it illustrates ...

BREVARD - The guest book was blank on a recent morning at the world’s only museum for aluminum Christmas trees. It was impossible to tell whether no one had been visiting or whether visitors were ...

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An Irish-based company has designed CO2-sucking metal columns that can clean up part of the carbon emissions released by cars. The company plans to install 1,200 such “metal trees” in the United ...

We’ve all seen fake plants, but palm trees made of metal? That’s what you’ll find if you visit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad. It’s a tropical sight in the middle of the southeast New ...

Steel branches the color of ground coffee stretch to the sky; metal leaves sparkle like jewels in the sun; stone pillars stand at attention; an undulating landscape supports native plants and grasses ...

If you have ever seen aluminum bands, hardware cloth or some other type of metal wrapping the trunk of a tree, you might have wondered about its purpose. It’s not to help the trunk grow straight, nor ...