ideastream: John Grabowski, the Krieger Mueller Associate Professor of Applied History, provided his expertise in a story about a historic English oak tree being replanted at Rockefeller Pond in ...

“The oak, when living, monarch of the wood. The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.” -Charles Churchill The English oak (Quercus robur) was so highly valued by the English that it was ...

Kew Gardens - a lush, green oasis on the outskirts of London - is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. But beneath the tree tops, trouble is brewing. Back in 2022, a drought hit the region. It was ...