A living relic of history stands in a quiet corner of a Japanese seaside town, its thick gnarled branches stretching skyward as if whispering secrets to the breeze. The sacred camphor tree at Kinomiya ...

A centuries-old Texas institution is being chopped away and there's nothing Dolly Parton or Beyonce can do to save it. After standing in Central Texas for 400 years, "Jolene," the tree with "eyes of ...