An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. When ...

Truphena Muthoni is a Kenyan environmentalist who has broken her own record for hugging a tree for 72 hours. On Tuesday, December 9, 2025, Muthoni began an attempt to continuously hug a tree for 72 ...

When he hugged me, to this day, it's bothered me. ... I don't know if he knew that was the last hug or not, but that was the ...

The New York City holiday institution has only gotten bigger and brighter since its debut on Christmas Eve 1931 ...

With half of Hollywood settling into Christmas in the Cotswolds, it’s worth knowing there are parts of South that still feel ...

The service, starting at 8 a.m., is available by reservation only for residents within the city of Jackson. Trees must be ...

If you thought picking out a Christmas tree could not get any more festive, a story from the Telegraph just proved otherwise. At one Illinois tree farm, the holiday experience now includes hugging a ...

A Sea Scout loads Christmas trees onto a forklift at the Sea Scouts’ Christmas tree lot next to Middlefield Ballpark in Palo Alto on Dec. 10, 2025. Photo by Seeger Gray. At the Palo Alto Christmas ...

A Kenyan woman, Truphena Muthoni, beat her own world record, hugging a tree continuously for 72 hours at the foot of Mount Kenya. Her “silent protest” was meant to hold authorities and a complacent ...