Amidst the celebrations of Raksha Bandhan, Manali’s Kalpana Thakur once again upheld her unique tradition — tying rakhi to a 17-year-old deodar tree she planted as a child. The gesture, she says, is ...

May 16, 2024 / 9:59 AM EDT / CBS News The "grotesque" baobab tree has long been known as the "tree of life" for its ability to create and maintain its own ecosystem in arid regions.

When 11 worshipers were killed at the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, the gunman who carried out the massacre was blunt in his bigotry, declaring beforehand on social media that he was ...

Landmark The tree is situated over a small creek that drains from the cliff onto the beach. Spruce is a species that can grow to over 300-feet-tall but the Tree of Life is thick and squat.

Mr. Libeskind, who in 2003 won the competition to design the World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11 attacks, had been in New York when the attack at Tree of Life occurred.