The crowd gathers several hours before midnight. Children are bundled in light jackets to keep warm against the wind whipping across Havana Bay. Men and women clutch flowers, candles and coins. Each ...

The country’s most exceptional Ceiba tree, a 57-meter-tall giant that towers over Arenal Lake, in north-central Costa Rica, was honored yesterday during a ceremony on the National Day of Trees. A jury ...

VIEQUES, Puerto Rico ― It’s been a year and a half since hurricanes Irma and Maria pummeled this tiny island off Puerto Rico’s eastern coast, and still many homes lay in rubble, electric wires hang ...

A huge, centuries-old ceiba tree on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques has bloomed again for the first time since Hurricanes Maria and Irma struck. Residents see this as a sign of hope. Now we'd like ...

Q: As the co-director of the Dorothy Stang Center for Social Justice and Community Engagement at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, I am attempting to obtain a Ceiba tree to honor the woman ...

Several species of Ceiba (pronounced SAY-ba) from Tropical America are called silk floss trees, and all are deciduous, fall and winter blooming plants that perform well in Central Florida. These ...

Architect Jorge Ramírez has preserved an old fruit tree, tired mud walls, and decorative archways in his family's 1930s home in Aguascalientes, Mexico, and then added a white yoga studio on top.