Beads of sweat form on Cynel Moundounga’s brow as he repeatedly rams a steel rod into an Okoume tree. Each strike of his mallet cuts through the relative quiet of the world’s second-largest tropical ...

What do you do with a 110-year-old dead tree that needs to be torn down? Most people would simply have the thing removed, but one Idaho woman had a better idea. Motivated by her passion for books, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The coolest library we've ever come across is built INTO a tree in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. It's basically a tree house crossed with ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For nearly 20 years, the odd-shaped building at the corner of Lone Tree Parkway and South Yosemite Street has been a community institution in Lone Tree. But ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The new Lone Tree library will welcome patrons for the first time Saturday after more than a year of construction, but visitors shouldn’t be surprised if ...

LANSING, Mich. — In the mighty Mitten, unique stories are always steps away. Perhaps never more true than in the rare books vault of the Library of Michigan. “If you want to know about Michigan in a ...

A new “floating” library envisioned for the Porta Vittoria Park in Milan, Italy may look like a fantasy concept unlikely to become real. But Bolzano and Berlin-based architecture firm Studio noa* ...

Fletcher students returned from spring break to find a blossoming tree in the entrance of the Edwin Ginn Library. With tassels of cloth hanging from its limbs, the tree rests in a corner across from ...

Some of Orange County’s hopes and desires for the year are hanging inside a 2-acre beachside patch of greenery in Corona del Mar for all to see. Sherman Library & Gardens set up its annual Wishing ...

SIMI VALLEY (CBS) — The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is getting transformed for the holidays. Chief among the decorations is an aisle of Christmas trees that have been carefully decorated with ...