An Auburn University graduate student has become an international sensation after establishing a new Guinness World Record for hugging the most trees in an hour. Abubakar Tahiru is a native of Tepa, ...

A young Murang’a man undertaking an 80-hour tree-hugging challenge has dismissed claims he is copying Truphena Muthoni, ...

A Kenyan woman, Truphena Muthoni, beat her own world record, hugging a tree continuously for 72 hours at the foot of Mount Kenya. Her “silent protest” was meant to hold authorities and a complacent ...

Fifty years ago this week, Gaura Devi, an ordinary woman from a nondescript village in India, hugged a tree, using her body as a shield to stop the tree from being cut down. Little did she know that ...