Pastor Jimmy Irungu, 30, attempted to break a world record by hugging a tree for 80 hours in an effort to advocate for the fight against cancer. He was hospitalised after collapsing. [Courtesy] What ...

For decades the Boy Scouts in Londonderry have fired up the community for a good cause after the holidays. As the new year starts, Scouts in Troop 521 took on its annual Christmas tree collection, ...

A Boy Scout troop is having its annual Christmas tree pickup on Saturday, Jan. 10. The service, starting at 8 a.m., is available by reservation only for residents within the city of Jackson. Trees ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. When Truphena Muthoni stepped up to a royal palm in Nyeri and ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - There’s a way to make your post-holiday cleanup a bit easier: Let Omaha’s scouts take your Christmas tree off your hands for you. Scouts of America’s annual Christmas tree pickup ...

Veterans advocacy organizations across Nebraska are unhappy the governor wants to move millions out of the fund to help balance the budget. Emergency responders are at the scene of a crash near I-480 ...

The 2025 Christmas tree was cut down and brought to The Durham Museum in Omaha. If you're already thinking about how to dispose of that real Christmas tree, the City of Omaha and Boy Scouts Troop 570 ...

Akanksha Awal receives funding from the ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, and St John's College. I would like to thank Hangzhang Ding, an undergraduate at Peking University at the time, who accompanied me in ...

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 ...

For 72 hours, she neither slept nor ate while hugging a tree at the Governor’s office in Nyeri, attempting to break her own world record. For 22-year-old environmentalist Truphena Muthoni, the feat ...

Youth scout troops will be cruising through neighborhoods across Central Oregon on the two weekends after Christmas looking for Christmas trees to pick up and recycle. The scouts will be conducting ...