CHINA - Once considered 'unlucky' and taboo, the funeral industry in China is booming, raking in millions of dollars annually and becoming an unexpected goldmine.

Lisa Liu, 29, from Heze in China's Shandong province, once worked as a teacher. Exhausted and hoarse from the pressure of her job, she decided to change her career in July 2023. After a chance ...

A 29-year-old woman quit her teaching job in July 2023 after feeling exhausted and hoarse. She switched careers to the coffin business, focusing on the European market, especially Italy, and now her ...

In China, death has long been regarded as a taboo subject, often associated with misfortune and bad luck. Yet in Heze, a city in eastern China’s Shandong province, that cultural hesitation has quietly ...

A freshman seminar encourages students to behave differently in the world and feel more passionately about biodiversity. Each Harvard University freshman in the “Tree” seminar must choose a single ...

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

Every time arctic air drops south, and temperatures plummet well below zero, social media lights up with a scary (and slightly cinematic) rumor called "exploding trees." Videos circulate of loud, ...

Experts say trees do not explode but can crack loudly due to rapid temperature changes. This phenomenon, known as "frost cracking," occurs when tree sap freezes and expands. Young trees, thin-barked ...

As we head into the weekend, a major winter storm system is going to slide some of the coldest air we’ve felt in years right over Michigan - and we’re going to be in a deep freeze for a few days. How ...

It’ll be a tree-mendous freeze. Forecasters are warning that expected subzero temperatures could cause trees to explode as a brutal cold snap is expected to wallop most of the country in the coming ...