With so many varieties sold as Christmas trees, knowing what differentiates a Douglas fir from a Norway spruce is key to shopping for a real tree you’ll love. You’re likely to see more than one ...

A four-year-old girl, who was sleeping beside her grandmother under a mosquito net at the Railway shed in Tarakeshwar near West Bengal's Kolkata, was abducted on the night of November 7 and sexually ...

Mira-Bhayandar News: In a horrifying incident, video of a housing society resident in Mira Road deliberately running his two-wheeler over harmless sleeping dog is going viral on social media.

There are few things more fun than hiking to a brand new mountain lake and figuring out how to go about fishing it. The past two years, I’ve fallen hard for hike-in fishing at Cascade Mountain lakes ...

Simon Fraser University (SFU) in British Columbia, Canada, has deployed a new supercomputer at its Burnaby campus. The CA$80 million ($58.6m) system, dubbed Fir, replaces the Cedar system that is ...

Concerned Vancouver residents have raised the alarm about a 400-year-old Douglas Fir tree cut down in Stanley Park. Norm Oberson, a provincially-certified tree risk assessor, said he was contacted two ...

A new supercomputer at Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby campus has restored the school’s status as host to the most powerful academic computer system in Canada. The supercomputer, named Fir, was ...

Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is one of the premier species of the Western forests. Not only is the wood exceptionally strong for its weight, but the trees are abundant. Trees can grow more than ...

The historic tree is alive, but it lost some of the record height that made it the tallest Douglas fir in the world. Volunteer tree climbers Damien Carré with Oregon Tree Care in Oregon City and Logan ...

The world’s tallest Douglas fir is damaged but alive after burning for nearly a week in Oregon. On August 21, arborists climbed the famous 327-foot-tall tree known as the Doerner Fir and used a hose ...

One of the world's tallest and oldest trees has been burning for several days as firefighters race to preserve it. Oregon's Doerner Fir, a 450-year-old Douglas fir towering more than 325 feet, caught ...