Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A library clerk reads "El Arbol Generoso," the Spanish version of Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree." The children's picture ...

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In 2013, the city of Melbourne in Australia issued ID numbers and email addresses to its trees in order to allow citizens to report threats to trees' health and to guard them from vandalism. The ...

A forester from Germany became a nature rock star a few years ago with a book that challenged notions many of us hold about trees. The first time I read his book, it made me smile at the facts and ...

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