This past awards season counted as a career milestone for author María Dolores Águila, whose historical middle grade novel in verse, 'A Sea of Lemon Trees,' garnered much critical acclaim, including a ...

Red Book I #4 hits stores Wednesday with the series finale tackling China's Xiaoshan Airport UFO incident. Cover-ups never end well.

In “Red Dawn Over China,” the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism’s rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help.

A mid-winter trip up to the Abergavenny hills for a birthday saw a dinnertime treat at The Walnut Tree, a long-established, ...

Trees can be identified in winter by observing their needles, bark, branching patterns, and buds. Distinctive bark, such as the smooth gray bark of a beech or the peeling white bark of a paper birch, ...

At the heart of the celebration stands a "wish tree," its branches gradually filling with handwritten cards fluttering like colorful leaves. Many Iraqis write their hopes in Arabic for the new year: ...

Author Livia Blackburne and illustrator Julia Kuo transform Ah Bing's sparse biography into a fable about family, prejudice ...

With inspiration from the Gardening Australia Junior crew, children will discover the interconnected life of the garden, celebrating birds, bees, bats and moths and the living things that flutter and ...

If you like to hike or snowshoe in the winter, you might like to learn the names of the trees you see. Do so, and the trees will seem like your friends. No need to greet them as Sally and Bob, know ...

Mountain pine beetle outbreaks are expanding into lower-elevation ponderosa pine forests in Colorado. The dead, red trees resulting from beetle infestations increase the risk and severity of wildfires ...

Laura Horst joins Gail Martin to discuss "The Island of Missing Trees." The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak is a story of two teenagers from the northern part of Cyprus who meet and fall in ...

Perhaps the most remarkable feature of all species, living and extinct, is their extraordinary interconnectivity. Each species on Earth can trace its roots back to the same cluster of ancestral ...