One wintry day in 1935, the poet E.E. Cummings decided to pay a visit to the Natural History Museum in Manhattan. In a letter to the poet Ezra Pound, he later described the museum, sarcastically, as a ...

Sure, real Christmas trees will make your house smell nice, but there are a lot of benefits to using a faux tree for the holidays. With an artificial tree, you don’t have to worry about sticky sap or ...

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Maybe you climbed trees as a kid in your backyard. But have you ever wondered what it would be like to climb a 300-foot-tall Douglas fir? At Silver Falls State Park, you now have the opportunity to ...

The blooming of jacarandas often signals the start of pre-summer, the most hopeful time of year. Vacation mode nears when their blue-ish purple flowers holler “party!” B. Ramón Alvarado, ...

Magaly Belalcázar Ortega stands near land carved out of rainforest to pasture cows. A swath of freshly cut forest is visible behind her. Elizabeth Stevens/Oxfam In Colombia, fighting for the future of ...