In June 2023, I hugged a tree. It wasn’t a special tree, and I didn’t hug it to save it or to make a political statement. I don’t even remember what kind of tree it was, just that it was on the campus ...

Twenty-two-year-old environmental activist Truphena Muthoni Environmental activist Truphena Muthoni becomes the first person to hug a tree continuously for 72 hours on December 11, 2025. [Amos Kiarie, ...

This year marks the 55th anniversary of Earth Day celebrating nature and this beautiful planet we live on. The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, when 20 million people attended inaugural events ...

A young man from Murang’a has launched an 80-hour tree-hugging challenge, sparking debate on social media, with questions of originality emerging online This is because his challenge comes shortly ...

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 ...

In Beijing's central district, trees are everywhere: in parks, along roadsides and in courtyards inside people's houses. Many have only been planted in recent decades. Others—with wide trunks—have ...

BUTTE, Mont. — Volunteer first responders visited Butte area elementary schools on Thursday afternoon to provide safety tips in case kids get lost in the wilderness. 15-90 Search and Rescue members ...

Larry Beveridge, who worked 26 years at the San Diego Police Department and became a strong supporter of a program designed to help find children lost in the wilderness after the death of his stepson, ...