After getting a tall honor from the state, the historic Westwood Kissing Tree will be feted on Valentine's Day.

In contrast, the trees around it are doing visibly better. We are in the Grunewald, western Berlin’s largest forest. Here, biologists from the Freie Universität Berlin (FU) have created a forest ...

The tree is a copper beech, an ornamental form of the European beech, said a report compiled for the borough last year by arborist Elizabeth Stewart. European colonists brought the species to the ...