New species are being discovered faster than ever before — at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

David Spade slammed a mall's tree-lighting ceremony for omitting the word "Christmas." In the Sunday episode of Spade and Dana Carvey's "Fly on the Wall" podcast, the 61-year-old "Grown Ups" actor ...

From Estonia to Antarctica, this once-pagan symbol has taken on many strange forms. In December 1848, an illustration showed Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children admiring a Christmas tree ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

Abstract: Real options analysis (ROA) is an approach for evaluating investment and strategic projects. And it helps manager in making decisions in an uncertain and highly competitive business ...

Christmas trees are the centerpiece of a holiday celebration. Every year, between 25 and 30 million Christmas trees are sold in the United States, according to the National Christmas Tree Association.

Installation view of Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg, Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (all photos David S.

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Our shade trees are proud to have a chance to prove themselves in our landscapes. If we’re careful when we choose them, and attentive to their needs from that day on, they’ll be faithful servants for ...