Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sustainable fashion brand called tentree has started using “the world’s most sustainable fiber” in its range of clothing. The ...

If you stepped outside during the recent polar vortex, you probably had on an insulated jacket, or wished you did. Normally, those insulated jackets are made of two layers of fabric with a ...

Once upon a simpler time, there was a magical place that stood alone deep in Davie’s wild western woods. Huge Grecian columns marked its entrance. Peacocks roamed the gardens surrounding a cluster of ...

Once upon a time, in the 1970s and 1980s in western Davie, the Kapok Tree was THE place in Broward County for weddings, bar mitzvahs and banquets. Twenty years later, its grounds reopened as Long Key ...

African kapok fruit is a versatile natural resource that is used for a number of purposes across the continent ...

Grand. Awesome. Inspiring. Beautiful. Those are among the words you used to describe the giant kapok tree on the Lake Trail when we asked for your photos and memories of the 186-year-old tree. The ...

Two 80-year-old kapok trees in Boynton Beach each hold history and cherish city memories, but one faces an inevitable demise at the expense of the Town Square project. Both kapok trees were planted in ...

Celebrated in Buddhist temples and cultivated for its wood and cottony fibers, the kapok tree now is upsetting an idea that biologists have clung to for decades: the notion that African and South ...

Here's some good news and some bad news. It's good that most of the beautifully flowered trees of the kapok family (Malvaceae) perform well in Polk. What's bad is that virtually no one here grows them ...

The skyline becomes a tapestry of reddish orange blooms in the central province of Quang Ngai Province, come spring. Hills, mountains, streams, houses, streets – Quang Ngai adorns itself with kapok ...