Add VegOut to your Google News feed. When 22-year-old Truphena Muthoni wrapped her arms around a royal palm tree outside the Nyeri County Governor's office in December 2025, she embarked on what would ...

Guinness World Records has officially confirmed Kenyan environmentalist Truphena Muthoni’s 72-hour tree hug as the longest marathon hugging a tree in the world. In a statement released on Monday, ...

When walking by the Valley Life Sciences Building, you will be met with the aromatic smell of the tall eucalyptus trees. Native to Australia, these sweet-scented trees are well-known for their usage ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. When Truphena Muthoni stepped up to a royal palm in Nyeri and ...

For 72 hours, she neither slept nor ate while hugging a tree at the Governor’s office in Nyeri, attempting to break her own world record. For 22-year-old environmentalist Truphena Muthoni, the feat ...

If you thought picking out a Christmas tree could not get any more festive, a story from the Telegraph just proved otherwise. At one Illinois tree farm, the holiday experience now includes hugging a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to the Telegraph, the experience is taking place at Tangled Tinsel Christmas Tree Farm in Alton, Ill., where owners ...

Truphena Muthoni, a climate and environmental advocate and mental-health survivor, braves a heavy downpour as she hugs a palm tree in Nyeri town during her 72-hour tree-hugging marathon. She claims ...

COSBY, Tenn. — One unseasonably warm day in November, the path of spiritual enlightenment lay in following a two-toed camelid named after the Dalai Lama up a ridge in the foothills of the Smoky ...

As chair of our city’s Tree Advisory Board, a lifelong learner, arborist, biologist, and parent, I wanted to share a perspective speaking to risk. In June 1996, I rode passenger in a 1990 Honda Civic ...