The success of To Kill a Mockingbird overwhelmed Harper Lee. Donald Uhrbrock / Time Life Pictures / Getty Images To spend an hour in Monroeville, Alabama, is to know why Harper Lee, the author of ...

The impact blew away the vines that had wrapped around its branches, and the lightning struck the tree with enough force to kill more than a dozen nearby trees. The tree was virtually unscathed.

James Foster/For the Sun-Times Share Illinois is closer than ever to becoming a no-kill state for pets in shelters, and every resident can play a role in making it happen. Two-thirds of Illinois ...

The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the Department of Defense’s school system for children of military families, asserting that the removal of race- and gender-related books and curricula ...

Learn how to kill a tree safely and effectively to eliminate invasive, unsightly, or improperly placed trees. There are lots of reasons to plant new trees, but sometimes you need to know how to ...

You’ve seen it on "The White Lotus," but did you know the toxic Pong Pong tree’s seeds are real? And Chicago's Field Museum ...

The tonka bean tree in Panama not only survives, but thrives off of lightning strikes, which it uses to wipe out its ...

The pong pong tree, also known as the "suicide tree," featured on season three of the 'The White Lotus' has a deadly history ...

Hundreds of millions of trees suffer this fate every year. But the opposite appears to be the case for the towering tonka bean tree (Dipteryx oleifera), a native of the rainforests of Panama that ...

In the first episode of the season, an employee at the resort tells the Ratliff family to avoid the poisonous fruit hanging over their pool, as it can kill them ... pong pong tree are very real ...

Choosing to spare or kill Takahashi Ichi-Hime and Takahashi Goro in Assassin's Creed Shadows are two decisions you'll need to make as part of the Twisted Tree quest chain. The two siblings are ...