In the greenhouse atop Carnegie Science Hall, a green seedling peeks up from an unassuming black pot. Small but storied, this plant has traveled the world to put down roots here in Lewiston. The ...

Staff at the San Diego Botanic Garden plant the special ginkgo. Photo credit: Courtesy, San Diego Botanic Garden The nuclear bombs that dropped in Japan nearly 80 years ago appeared to destroy ...

ENCINITAS (KGTV) — Wednesday marks the 80th anniversary of the bombing at Hiroshima, and a living piece of that history grows in San Diego's Botanic Garden in Encinitas. A small ginkgo tree, planted ...

TOKYO (AP) — Miho Nakashima stood in a bathing suit in Tokyo on Sunday next to a 100-year-old gingko tree, her body painted head-to-toe in green leaves and brown branches. Her message was clear, and ...

Q. I have read that ginkgo trees can live for hundreds of years. Is this true, and what makes them so unusual? Why are they called “living fossils?” A. Modern ginkgoes belong to a single species of ...

Q. I have read that ginkgo trees can live for hundreds of years. Is this true, and what makes them so unusual? Why are they called “living fossils”? A. Modern ginkgoes belong to a single species of ...

FOR ANIMALS IN PARKS. DES MOINES, PARKS AND REC PLANTED A NEW TREE TODAY RIGHT ALONG THE DES MOINES RIVER. BUT THIS GINGKO TREE HAS QUITE THE HISTORY. ITS SEEDS CAME FROM ANOTHER TREE THAT SURVIVED ...

Mr. Matsuda is a photographer and writer based in Portland, Ore. My grandmother doesn’t talk about the bomb. Whenever I ask, she claims she doesn’t know what happened to her family, though I suspect ...