Living Christmas Trees Sing Out Around the World

This time of year, the message of Christmas is presented countless times in various ways throughout the world. Growing in popularity are the living singing tree performances held throughout the United States...

World's fastest supercomp for science

The attempts to make powerful computing system is always on. America's Department of Energy's (DOE) has developed a high-performance computing system .Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been proclaimed the world's fastest supercomputer for...

Beautiful live oaks butchered by power crews, post-Gustav

It's very apparent the crews repairing the electric lines in New Orleans after Gustav blew through have no landscape architecture training.  One area in the Seabrook neighborhood in Gentilly, along Franklin...

Missing: Canada's only Olympic oak

Has anybody seen a German oak (querqus peduculata), about 70 years old, somewhere in Canada?  Presented to gold medallist paddler Frank Amyot in 1936 and last seen at a ceremony in Ottawa."Where is Canada's...

Barreling Out...Oak, Wine and a Transatlantic Venture

To illustrate the importance of the barrel in the making of wine, from the vineyards to our lips.

Lloyd Harbor's mighty oak falls

It stood for about 550 years and came down with a crack in the middle of the night. Lloyd Harbor's beloved "big oak," believed to be the oldest black oak tree in North America, fell early yesterday morning, the...

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