A retirement community in Maryland adopted a local elementary school, with senior volunteers helping students with reading skills and more.

Bonfires, drifting smoke and roasted mochi. Dondo-yaki is Japan’s mid-January fire ritual that marks the real end of the New ...

Hardwoods, known as broadleafs, are trees classed as angiosperms with ovules enclosed for fruit protection. When appropriately watered on good fertile sites or fed in the landscape with a unique tree ...

I’m walking in the Eifel Mountains in western Germany, through cathedral-like groves of oak and beech, and there’s a strange unmoored feeling of entering a fairy tale. The trees have become vibrantly ...

Every year, a 20-metre Christmas tree from Norway is erected in Trafalgar Square. Image: iStock/stockcam "Trafalgar Square is changed as never before. A 48-ft Christmas tree has sprung up on the west ...

Tango has two daddies in this heartwarming tale, inspired by actual events in New York's Central Park Zoo. Two male penguins, Roy and Silo, "did everything together. They bowed to each other.... They ...

The Christmas tree is a wonderful and historic tradition that we don our homes with every Christmas to fill us with spirit and to lay our gifts underneath. However, it is the birth of our Lord and ...