GUBBIO, Italy (WPVI) -- Trumpets celebrated the unveiling of the world's biggest Christmas tree in central Italy Friday night. Nearly 500 lights outline the shape of the tree, which rests on a hill in ...

Giuseppe Penone, veteran of the Arte Povera movement, with his curator Adam Weinberg, former director of the Whitney, are ...

Across the stony heel of Italy, a peninsula ringed by the blue-green waters of the Mediterranean, olive trees have existed for centuries, shaping the landscape and producing some of the nation's ...

Italian cypress trees can be a reliable choice for gardeners looking to create a visual screen between properties. But what if the trees, which usually are easy to grow, start to die? Reader G. Genari ...

Last summer Italian officials destroyed dozens of groves of prized and economically vital olive trees with chainsaws in an attempt to stop the spread of Xylella fastidiosa, a bacterium that has been ...

A storm-tossed tree branch that hit Swiss power lines helped trigger a massive blackout in almost all of Italy, trapping thousands on trains and forcing the pope to use a backup generator to proclaim ...

(CBS NEWS)- Olive trees don’t just dot the landscape in Puglia, Italy; they define it. They are so important here, in the heel of Italy’s boot, that locals use words like “patrimony” and “cultural ...