The attempt to save the 200-year-old "Green Giant" from ... tree was chosen for ecological reasons, emphasizing that it would have been cut down anyway. The Christmas tree tradition in the Vatican ...

A giant Norway spruce that will serve as this year’s Rockefeller Christmas tree was en route to New York City on Thursday from its tiny Massachusetts hometown. The 74-foot-high (23-meter-high ...

The tradition of the Christmas tree at the Vatican began in ... The 200-year-old tree was quickly nicknamed the "Green Giant" by locals. Several ecological associations in Trentino opposed this ...