Two glass artists are building a 36-foot tall glass Christmas Tree on the grounds of the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay again this year. Artist Rob Elliott says he and fellow artists Jason Mack ...

TARRAWINGEE’S historic Plough Inn has lain claim to the world’s tallest olive tree (Olea europaea). According to the Victorian Heritage Database, the olive tree stands at 17.3m tall which owner of the ...

Slippery salamanders glide mysteriously through the canopies of the world’s tallest trees. Now, scientists say they understand how the small skydivers are able to maneuver seamlessly across California ...

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The tallest tree in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has been felled by Storm Éowyn - a 95ft (29m) high deodar cedar which was planted 166 years ago. The head of the organisation said ...

Did a Mississippi man grow the world's tallest pepper plant? Henry Pope, the lead grower and plant geneticist for Mississippi Foundation for Renewable Energy, worked to cross-pollinate specific ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were ...

Simon Milne with the fallen Himalayan cedar in The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh The man in charge of the tallest tree in Edinburgh ... plant collections in the world. It was closed on Friday ...