The world’s largest cashew tree covers two acres of a park in Brazil and looks like a mini forest

Nuts! Behold the world’s largest cashew tree, which covers two acres and looks like a mini FOREST (and it’s still growing) The tree, located in a park next to an urban beach in Brazil, is a major draw for Instagramming tourists It is the size of 70 regular cashew trees, with some of its limbs … Read more

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle fans unveil ‘Archie’s woods’ after campaign for Sussex Great Forest

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle fans have revealed how they transformed a ‘once abandoned farm in upstate New York’ into a fledgling forest after planting 530 trees in honour of the couple.  Followers of the Duke, 35, and Duchess of Sussex, 38, launched the #SussexGreatForest campaign last year to mark the royals’ conservation work, with … Read more

Dramatic infrared drone footage shows extent of Wareham Forest fire

Dramatic infrared drone footage shows extent of Wareham Forest Fire that was declared a ‘major incident’ after flames engulfed an area the size of 250 football pitches The blaze has continued to rip through 150 hectares of Wareham Forest in Dorset on the hottest day of year A farm has been evacuated and the fire … Read more

First picture of woman found ‘chopped in half’ and torso dumped in suitcases in Forest of Dean 

A woman whose charred and dismembered body was found in suitcases dumped in a forest was today named as 28-year-old Phoenix Netts. The young woman was killed at a women’s refuge in Birmingham where she had been living for a number of months. Police fear she had been ‘sawed in half’ before being burned. Phoenix … Read more

Underwater forest of hydrothermal vents off the coast of Washington is mapped for the first time

Underwater forest of hydrothermal vents off the coast of Washington State is mapped for the first time, revealing more than 500 spirals with some standing 90 feet tall Hundreds of hydrothermal vents have been mapped in the Pacific Northwest This is the first time the eight miles of chimneys has ever been mapped The team … Read more

Lauren Goodger enjoys a socially distanced chat with her female pal in Epping Forest

Lauren Goodger was once again displaying her amazing curves in tight black sportswear on Wednesday as she embarked on her daily exercise in Epping Forest. The ex-TOWIE star, 33, highlighted her toned physique as she ran into a female pal during the walk. Due to the coronavirus lockdown, Lauren ensured that she was adhering to … Read more

The clump of 33 trees on Adak Island in Alaska that forms ‘America’s smallest national forest’

Pictured: The clump of 33 trees in Alaska that forms ‘America’s smallest national forest’ The forest is located on Adak Island, part of the volcanic Aleutian archipelago The first trees on the spot were planted to cheer up Second World War troops  Around 6,000 troops were stationed on the island to guard against the Japanese  By … Read more

Dramatic aerial pictures capture ferocity of Chernobyl’s forest fires

Dramatic aerial pictures have captured the ferocity of the fires ripping through Chernobyl’s exclusion zone. Firefighters on their tenth day battling the blaze are desperately trying to extinguish it before it wreaks a path to the site of the exploded nuclear reactor. Radiation levels in the area have already spiked since the outbreak on April … Read more

Raging forest infernos in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone are now ‘close’ to exploded nuclear reactor

Raging forest infernos in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone burning for eight days are now ‘close’ to exploded nuclear reactor amid new fears of radiation contamination Wildfires burning through Chernobyl forests are nearing the nuclear reactor There are fears that flames could reach radioactive trucks and vehicles abandoned after the notorious 1986 power station explosion Kiev has … Read more

Shipworms pulled from underwater forest that grew 60,000 years ago could be used to make antibiotics

An underwater forest 60 feet below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico may be harboring life-saving secrets. Researchers found that shipworms and other marine organisms living in tree trunks that grew nearly 60,000 years ago could be used to design new pharmaceuticals. The shipworms pulled from the depths were found to be ‘stuffed full … Read more