Team finds China's Buddhist and Taoist temples host higher concentration of old trees - some dating back 1,000 years - than anywhere else At the foot of Zhongnan Mountain in the Chinese city of Xian, ...

Ancient pine trees growing in the Iberian mountains of eastern Spain have quietly recorded more than five centuries of ...

Many varieties of ancient Greek healing herbs grow on "Asclepius Path," Mount Kerketion, where god of medicine, Asclepius, ...

For over 300 years, visitors to the Dai Temple at the foot of Taishan Mountain in Shandong province have been able to find natural respite under the canopy of the great ginkgo tree in the temple ...

Towering like a pagoda, with scale-like leaves and roots gripping rocks, this tree stands upright on steep cliffs. Thuja sutchuenensis is an endangered gymnosperm plant unique to China. Originating ...

A protection worker ties an information tag onto an ancient tree. [Photo provided to CHINA DAILY] As China's first UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage Site listed in 1987, Taishan Mountain is ...

High in the White Mountains of eastern California, a tree over 4,800 years old challenges our understanding of time. Known as the Methuselah Tree, this ancient bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) has ...

The felling of a 500-year-old ancient oak in north London has led to an outpouring of anger, echoing the reaction when the Sycamore Gap tree is alleged to have been chopped down in September 2023.

As Beijing undergoes unprecedented construction around the city for the 2008 Olympic Games, many ancient trees have been rediscovered along with historic relics. Though archeologists and others have ...

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