Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in the 2,000-year-old city of Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire. Today, Skopje is the capital of the Republic of Macedonia, a statelet of 2 million people that ...

In August 1952, Sam Robinson stood next to the “Mother-in-Law” tree in the Jamestown church yard. The legend he created about the tree had made the story nationally known.

Among the arbutus, Garry oaks, red cedars, and Douglas firs lining Cordova Bay’s Wesley Road, one tree stands out as the community’s crown jewel: a 100-year-old bigleaf maple known as Mother Maple.

“That tree dates back to Lincoln’s burial at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield in May of 1865,” Alexander said. “A young woman and her mother decided to attend the funeral at Oak Ridge and ...

A popular theory about how trees cooperate has enchanted the public and raised the profile of forest conservation. But some ecologists think its scientific basis has been oversold.