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, ...
On the weekend of Oct. 19, 1991, a deadly firestorm devastated the Oakland Hills, leaving 25 people dead and causing an ...
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 ...
A Kenyan environmentalist hugged a palm tree for 72 straight hours in Nyeri county to draw attention to the rapid loss of the country’s native forests, many of which face extinction. Truphena ...
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 ...
Akanksha Awal receives funding from the ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, and St John's College. I would like to thank Hangzhang Ding, an undergraduate at Peking University at the time, who accompanied me in ...