Meeting the oldest living thing on Earth

... persuaded many tree scientists that ancient churchyard yews were older than all previous estimates by some thousands of years; and that one in particular, the Great Yew in the churchyard at Fortingall in Scotland, might be the oldest livin

Green is the colour of happiness

One of the most famous is the Fortingall yew in a Perthshire village of the same name, which was around when Stonehenge was a youngster. This is impressive enough, but what about the cluster of clonal aspen trees in a Utah forest that the auth

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