Clockwise: Michael Greenstein examines the bark of a Chinese elm in his collection in Los Altos; A liquidambar, also known as an American sweet gum tree, that Greenstein is growing in a pot; Deadwood ...

A 12 to 14-hour train journey from Bangkok to Chiang Mai in Thailand's far north is a rite of passage for budgetconscious backpackers.

Carved out of a tree trunk, and barely wide enough to accommodate ... The shirtless captain revved up the engine. The slender craft puttered past clumps of reeds, scuttled rowboats and an ...

Meanwhile, the female elephant, Khosi, a teenager who helped raise him along with his biological mother, Ndlula, repeatedly tapped him on the back with her trunk, and even on the ... instructor in ...

In his teens he became one of the best elephant handlers in the business. Alone he trained the pachyderms to stay in line, trunk to tail ... he was flying his own craft on his hunting junkets.

These animals have been named after their large size and the protruding trunk found on the males. The northern Elephant Seals used ... trying one of Carmel Craft Brewing Company’s craft beers.

Shipshewana sits in LaGrange County, about 40 miles east of South Bend, nestled in the heart of Indiana’s Amish country. With ...

The Scrappy Elephant, a creative reuse store based in Charlottesville, just opened their pop-up in the former Bowen Jewelry ...

When Michaella Becker, a green stormwater infrastructure design engineer for the Philadelphia Water Department, was apartment ...