ILLAHEE, Wash. – The reign of a contender for the title of oldest Pacific yew tree in the United States has come to an end. The yew's gnarled, bubbly bark and green limbs – celebrated for decades with ...

The teen died after ingesting yew tree berries during a walk with his father Getty A 14-year-old boy has died after eating poisonous berries during a walk in the park, a UK inquest into his death has ...

After decades, scientists have finally pieced together the 23-step biosynthetic pathway to produce this cancer drug ...

On Feb. 3, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game reported two elk calves had dropped dead in the Warm Springs part of Ketchum, Idaho. They join 19 other elk from Mapleton, Utah as the latest victims ...

BENEATH those rugged elms, that yew-tree’s shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould’ring heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. It is the loveliest ...

Surrey's Crowhurst Yew is often confused with the 1300-year-old Crowhurst Yew which can be found just north of Hastings, West ...

Taxol is a widely used chemotherapy drug – it has been used to treat millions of ovarian, breast, and lung cancer patients. Today, it’s mainly produced by extracting its chemical precursor, baccatin ...

A “magnificent” yew tree which is believed to be more than 500 years old and lies within the grounds of a ruined abbey has been crowned the Woodland Trust’s Tree of the Year. The Waverley Abbey yew, ...

ILLAHEE — The reign of a contender for the title of oldest Pacific Yew tree in the United States came to an end this winter at Illahee State Park. The yew's gnarled, bubbly bark and green limbs — ...