JERUSALEM -- Since embracing family and friends is off-limits these days because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority say people can find comfort in a different way by ...

It might sound like something out of a wellness cliché, but there’s real science behind why hugging trees makes people feel better. Studies show that spending time around trees lowers cortisol, slows ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Cason and Philip Wolcott chose to buy the house on a small Gresham side street because a large grove of majestic trees abutted its backyard. When a neighbor died shortly after they ...

PALISADES PARK — Marcy Miller rested her head gently on the California palm tree, tears welling in her eyes as she embraced the trunk, memories of her now deceased father, once a worker in a lumber ...

Meet 21-year-old Truphena Muthoni, who broke a Guinness World Record for hugging a tree for an extended period. The environmental conservationist hugged the tree at Michuki Park in Nairobi on Saturday ...

Visibly tired, relieved, and overcome with emotion, environmental activist Truphena Muthoni finally completed a physically demanding challenge that has propelled her onto the global stage. For 72 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Yellowstone National Park ranger Bonnie Whitman and her two search and rescue dogs, Auggie and ...

In June 2023, I hugged a tree. It wasn’t a special tree, and I didn’t hug it to save it or to make a political statement. I don’t even remember what kind of tree it was, just that it was on the campus ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — This was not what I expected I'd be doing on a Sunday afternoon, racing from tree to tree in a speed hugging competition. But I got all caught up in the weird and wonderful tree ...