May I apologise for some of my colleagues in journalism who have been agonising over the felling of an ancient oak near a ...

While ancient cultures had their forms of tree worship and decoration, it was during the Victorian era that the Christmas tree began to take on its modern form. Queen Victoria and her German ...

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.

(Headline: “Greedy pub bosses killed our Elsie”). I don't share the modern fad for tree-worship. Human history does not suggest we love trees and trees, after millennia of ruthless ...