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Trees are essential to our survival—from making oxygen so we can breathe, to cooling urban environments, to literally holding the ground together to prevent erosion, trees do so much for us—there might even be some amazing things about trees that you never knew!

It turns out that trees can actually explode when temperatures drop.

Community organizations are planting trees in long-neglected neighborhoods to cool them down. These efforts are aiming to create healthier, more sustainable environments across Southern California. Earth Focus is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

The Eiffel Tower was not, at its birth, universally admired. The fact that it was supposed to be temporary did not mollify the people who disliked it, chief among them the short-story writer Guy de Maupassant. You probably read his work in middle school ...