The bark of a single tree can be home to trillions of bacteria, and these microbes may have an important but neglected role in controlling greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere. The total surface ...

The rising costs of labor and equipment are trickling down to homeowners who need to call “timber!” By Dan Levin What is removing a tree worth? Quotes vary widely, depending on size, risk and ...

Your noble fir — or maybe you went for a blue spruce, or a Douglas fir — has done its festive service. Your tree can find a new purpose as wood chips or compost, according to King County. But how do ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It happens, on occasion, that an online order doesn’t deliver, but with Santa already on his way, roommates in South Austin had to make the most of two failed attempts to order a ...

Through the looking glass: A half-century-old magnetic tape containing the only known copy of Unix v4 has been found and recovered by the University of Utah's School of Computing. The nine-track 3M ...

Video shows a late-night joyride spiraling out of control as a driver raced around a central square in southern Kazakhstan before crashing into a towering Christmas tree and knocking it over. CCTV ...

One source of Christmas joy may make some feel not so holly and jolly. If you decorate your home for the holidays every year, but feel downright awful as soon as the tree goes up, you could be dealing ...

A female doctor was mysteriously found dead and possibly naked inside a freezer at a Dollar Tree store in Miami, Florida, on Sunday, according to police and media reports. An employee at the discount ...

I experienced sticker shock when I visited a nursery to buy a holiday tree this year. A 10-foot tree would have cost me $370 if I'd gone ahead and bought it. I remembered being happy as a child in the ...

CARNATION, Wash. — Emma Ingram died Saturday afternoon when a tree fell onto her vehicle on state Route 203 north of Carnation. Her boyfriend, who was driving, was airlifted to Harborview Medical ...

ST. PAUL — An 18-foot balsam fir grown on a family farm in Litchfield will take center stage in the Minnesota State Capitol this holiday season, marking a first-time honor for Turck’s Trees, the ...

Decorated by the Skunk Train and towering over 200 feet, the living tree in Fort Bragg and Willits tops a new global ranking. Kristine Hansen is a design, food and drink, and travel writer based in ...