In a rainforest teeming with competition, one tree has discovered how to turn catastrophe into advantage. In Panama’s dense ...

He scored his greatest miniseries success in 1983 with another long-form drama, “The Thorn Birds,” based on Colleen McCullough’s best-seller. He played Father Ralph de Bricassart ...

But he is best remembered as the ambitious Australian priest in the high-rated TV miniseries adaptation of Colleen McCullough’s weighty romance novel “The Thorn Birds.” “Shogun,” based ...

Richard Chamberlain, the prolific Golden Globe-winning actor who starred in miniseries like Shogun and The Thorn Birds, has died at the age of 90. Chamberlain’s publicist confirmed the actor’s ...

PRETENDING TO BE SOMEONE ELSE The versatile actor was nominated for four Emmys -- as an English navigator in 17th century Japan in "Shogun" (1981), a love-torn priest in "The Thorn Birds" (1983 ...

Thorny was a descendant of Josiah Bartlett, the New Hampshire signer of the Declaration of Independence, and was a first cousin of Benjamin Franklin, eight times removed. His family tree included ...

Twenty million trees will be planted and 2,500 hectares (6,178 acres) of new woodland created in the west of England as part of a "national forest" drive, the government has announced. The Western ...

Together with the oceans, they are one of the two most important carbon sinks, due to their capacity to store carbon in the soil and in tree biomass. As such, promoting fast-growing trees could ...

In each experiment, tree species were planted in blocks, creating a mosaic of forest patches of the same age and species. Some experiments were established up to 60 years ago. Tree heights were ...