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At an awards ceremony in Brussels on Tuesday, the organizers announced this year’s winner: Poland, for a 400-year-old oak tree that organizers said had become a symbol of Polish resistance to ...

ZHYTOMYR, Ukraine — When the fighter jet crashed into these northwestern Ukrainian woods, killing its 27-year-old pilot, splintering trees and spewing fuel, it tore a gash in the forest canopy.

OLD trees are living epochs in the history of the world. Here have they stood for hundreds of years, some even for thousands, looking down upon the smiling earth; now battling with tempests, then ...

The 198-year-old Russian oak tree - planted by novelist Ivan Turgenev and destroyed by a hurricane last year - was disqualified by the European Tree of the Year competition due to the Ukraine invasion ...

Wess Roley is the suspect in the fatal ambush shooting of two firefighters in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Unverified reports claim ...

For 2019, it’s a 90-year-old tree, ... The first Christmas trees appeared in Russia during the Time of Troubles (interregnum period in 1598-1613) after the Polish intervention and occupation.

MOSCOW, January 1. /TASS/. Russia’s main New Year’s tree was cut down on December 11 in a forest near the village of Novopareevo, Shchelkovo Municipal District, in northeastern Moscow Region ...

These trees are among the oldest in MS and some may date back 1,000 years From 175 years old to possibly 1,000 years old, these Mississippi trees have seen a lot in their lifetimes.

The world's oldest living tree is "Methuselah." The tree's exact age is unknown, but experts believe it has been alive for close to 5,000 years, the U.S. Forest Service told USA TODAY in an email.

Witness the satisfying and powerful process of cutting down an old tree in the middle of the rice fields. Using expert chainsaw technique, the tree is carefully and efficiently felled, clearing ...

MAYOR: Russia's GDP grew by 2.9% in September; Sberbank's net profit under IFRS increased by 6.8% in 9 months; Real disposable incomes of the population increased by 8.6% in January-September; The ...