Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sustainable fashion brand called tentree has started using “the world’s most sustainable fiber” in its range of clothing. The ...

Hong Kong's beloved kapok trees are not blooming the way they used to, drawing concern from conservationists who see it as a ...

The Kapok Tree Inn was a legendary, grand-scale dining destination in Clearwater, Florida, a celebrated 'escape' for locals and tourists alike for decades. Built in the 1950s around a massive, century ...

Putting on gray work gloves and yellow helmets, students from local elementary schools Thursday morning helped celebrate Florida Arbor Day by planting a kapok tree at Phipps Ocean Park in Palm Beach. ...

Celebrated in Buddhist temples and cultivated for its wood and cottony fibers, the kapok tree now is upsetting an idea that biologists have clung to for decades: the notion that African and South ...

A prayer and a life jacket are just about all there is to rely on when a torpedoed seaman takes the big jump from his sinking ship. Kapok—the silky, white, feather-soft down from the pods of the kapok ...

Hong Kong’s iconic “hero trees” are changing—and scientists say it’s a warning sign of climate change. The Kapok tree, famous for its bright red flowers blooming on bare branches, is now behaving ...