The Christmas lights of today can light up trees and window frames with tiny twinkling lights of many colors—or cause frustration with their long and tangle-prone cables. But the first such lights, ...

A man walks past the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center before sunrise on Dec. 5, 2019, in New York City. Staff Writer Many people who celebrate Christmas have already decorated their own evergreens ...

Hanging a wreath on a door or a wall is almost as essential to decorating for yuletide as setting up a Christmas tree — and, as it turns out, the two traditions come from the same place. “The tree ...

A Peruvian man known for his environmentalism redefined the term “tree hugger” when he married a tree at a national park in Bogotá, Columbia on Sunday. Richard Torres symbolically married the tree as ...

Add this to your truth-is-stranger-than-fiction file: an art professor in upstate New York is modifying plum trees so that each can bear not just one, but up to 40 varieties of stone fruit. In what ...

IN the old days lumbermen had a harsh motto—”Cut and get out”—as they marched across U.S. forests leaving them stumped and stripped. The result was that by the late 1930s the U.S. was in danger of ...