Sweden's powerful Vasa warship sank on its maiden voyage in 1628. The ship was found in 1956 after a two-year search. Divers raised the Vas...

Portugal's widespread eucalyptus plantations, established for industry, are now fueling devastating wildfires. These fast-growing trees, im...

Pine forests teeming with birdlife have a secret: it's not the trees, but the undergrowth. A study reveals that dense shrub layers dramatic...

In northwestern Poland, the Crooked Forest features around 400 Scots pines with uniformly bent trunks, a phenomenon scientists attribute to...

Yantai Penglai International Airport’s Terminal 2 in China has been named the world’s most beautiful airport of 2025 by Prix Versailles. It...

Kodama has raised $6.6 million for a business that is driven by the reality that much of our forestland these days is stuffed with fuel jus...

Notre Dame is nearly 1,000 years old and has been damaged and repaired many times. Its last major renovation was in the mid-1800s. The mass...

From a resounding 620 kg bell to intricately crafted doors and symbolic creations like a colossal incense stick, the temple is gearing up f...

While the wind industry is facing challenges due to cost increases, supply-chain bottlenecks and financing, forecasts for growth are still ...

The Apple BKC store in Mumbai is surely a visually stunning and environmentally conscious space.

The clanwilliam cedar is found throughout the Western Cape Province of South Africa, especially in the Cederberg Mountains. Young trees hav...

At the Sculpture Park in Tauranga is a water well — the marker of Indian village landscape — with two people peering into its depths.

Located on a fertile plain just north of the Harz mountains, with fantastic vistas all around it, Quedlinburg has an interesting history.

The castle itself was built in the early 13th century by the Rapperswil counts, powerful nobles who moved from across the river to settle h...

“Soft” commodities go into food, and provide intermediate inputs (such as cotton and timber) into manufacturing.

Visitors to Switzerland may well be forgiven for thinking that Lucerne is just the base for excursions to the fascinating Mt Titlis and Mt ...