Millions of Hindus of different denominations, all over the world ... Considered sacred by the Druids in pre-Christian times, these ancient yew trees were in fact originally planted on pagan ...

Trees have been worshipped for millennia. Take a tour of the world’s most sacred and iconic trees—from Abraham’s oak in the West Bank to California’s Lone Cypress.

Martin Goodman, a professor of creative writing, tells the extraordinary story of a desert-dwelling community of western ...

KYOTO—An ume blossom that sprouted at the Kitano Tenmangu shrine here in early March is a world first ... a nearly 3-meter-tall tree, the biggest of five clones of the sacred ume tree that ...

Five years ago this winter, the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world, and governments responded ... the City wants to remove nearly 70 of the area’s 83 sacred trees and is preventing cormorants ...