Mogens EngelundThe Fortingall Yew tree in Perthshire, U.K., could be the oldest living organism in Europe. Crowds of unruly people can be stressful in any situation, but it has been particularly ...

Discovered more than 50 years ago in the bark of the Pacific yew tree, Taxol remains one of the world’s leading anticancer agents, a standby for physicians treating breast, lung and ovarian ...

On Feb. 3, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game reported two elk calves had dropped dead in the Warm Springs part of Ketchum, Idaho. They join 19 other elk from Mapleton, Utah as the latest victims ...

In 2018, Kitty Whitelaw of jazz duo Sealionwoman had just completed her dark, atmospheric debut album Siren with double bass player Tye McGivern, inspired by the Scottish folk tale of the selkie – a ...

He stirs bark with flour, sugar, butter, eggs, baking powder and salt, and combines the dough with a sweet cream made from tree needles. The result is a cookie similar to an Oreo .

Culture Rights + Justice Environment Yew Complete Me On the hunt for BC’s big trees. An excerpt from ‘Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs and Misadventures in the Forest.’ ...

Taxol was originally extracted from the inside bark of the Pacific yew tree (Taxus brevifolia), but as the taxol content in the bark is very low, harvesting it meant removing all the bark and as a ...

Today, these same poisons, initially extracted from the bark of Pacific yew trees, are produced synthetically for use in a range of chemotherapy cancer treatments.

As a critical yew tree becomes scarce, a Chinese study finds new pathway to rare anticancer compound. Advertisement. ... It makes up only about 0.004 per cent of the tree’s bark.

In 2019 the Witch's Yew Tree at Blarney Castle was voted Ireland's Tree of the Year! The annual competition organized by the Tree Council of Ireland searches for “the tree with the best story.