The printing for the final Harry Potter book will not only be the biggest, but also the greenest.Scholastic Inc. announced Tuesday that it had agreed with the Rainforest Alliance, a conservation organization that works with the business community, on tightened environmental standards for "Harry Potter...

The chestnut tree that gave Anne Frank a link to the outside world while she hid from the Nazis won a reprieve Tuesday when a judge ordered the city to reconsider whether the diseased tree can be saved.Judge Jurjen Bade adjourned a hearing and took...

Hiding from the Nazis in a cramped Amsterdam apartment, Anne Frank often gazed at a majestic chestnut tree visible through an attic skylight — her only window to the outside world — and dreamed of freedom.Now a group of conservationists and local activists are fighting...

They have been lovingly groomed for the past three months, and next week all eyes will be on Washington's treasured cherry trees in anticipation of the few days when they burst into an irresistible sea of pale blossoms.But as the trees perform the famous ritual...

Mr. Fowles's essay [which accompanies Frank Horvat's photographs in The Tree is] delightful and varied, a ramble among trees he has known, from his father's overformal orchard to the last fragment of British wilderness. The real subject of this arboreal excursion is not trees at all, but the importance in art of the unpredictable, the unaccountable, the intuitive, the not discernibly useful. Mr. Fowles is not opposed to practicality or to scientific analysis; he is merely reminding us t...