The ‘dynamite’ tree (Hura crepitans) is one of the largest trees of tropical America. Growing in open areas, they stay relatively short, but in the forest, they rise to 60 metres (200 feet) in height.

With Secret Love, Dry Cleaning’s compelling combination of interior monologues and art-rock backdrops reaches a zenith. In the four years since their last outing, the quartet doesn’t succumb to ...

Dead Man’s Island is linked to a deadly railway explosion. But how many died, and where they are buried, remains a mystery. Amanda Follett Hosgood is The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter. She lives on ...

Subterranean forests are not a figment of a science-fiction writer’s imagination, but actually exist. The Hayward Gallery’s ‘Among the Trees’ exhibition in 2020 included a remarkable photograph by ...

Our staff's favorite songs from a year that confirmed that hip-hop and R&B were now at top 40's center, but also had plenty of great rock, country and dance-pop to go around. This week, Billboard is ...

On a stormy night in November 1980, 32 year old Granger Taylor, a mechanical genius from the Canadian town of Duncan, vanished into thin air, leaving his loved ones baffled. Known for his exceptional ...

We're taking a look at all of the currently available potions, ingredients, and recipes that you can get for Wacky Wizards in Roblox! Roblox Wacky Wizards is a very popular game that features you ...

As the fourth-oldest university in the world, few things have had the longevity to watch over the 815 years of Cambridge’s history – but it may be its trees which have seen the most. In a 2004 survey ...

A small lawn, with oak and pecan trees, surrounded the two-story stone building. Early that morning, in the mild spring sunshine, two Rangers and the sheriff walked Hughes, his hands and feet in ...

The method of fusing a stick of dynamite. The method of fusing a stick of dynamite. When I was a kid on the farm, Dad always had a few sticks of dynamite, some caps and a roll of fuse in the shed. I ...

Although railroads and trucks had made the log drive an anachron­ism by 1949, when this story first ran, the method was still used. In the summer and winter in Idaho’s panhandle, lumberjacks floated ...