The Eiffel Tower was not, at its birth, universally admired. The fact that it was supposed to be temporary did not mollify the people who disliked it, chief among them the short-story writer Guy de ...

This article entertains an ongoing debate that I often hear: Are palm trees really trees? Could our state tree, the sable palm, not even be a tree? This has been argued in many different ways with the ...

Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland plants a tree at the botanical gardens in Barbados. But the initiative to deal with climate change is now itself threatened by the spiralling effects ...