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Each holiday season the United States produces millions of tons of food and shopping waste. Attending festive gatherings and exchanging gifts between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, American ...

Way out in Morocco’s southwest, something unusual plays out above the dry landscape: goats, balanced high in the branches of Argan trees. They don’t seem bothered by the height. In fact, they climb ...

Now that Christmas is over and it’s officially the new year, you’re either in one of two camps: Those who like to keep their tree up until the needles are totally dead and dried out, or those who are ...

PITTSFIELD — When Tammi Haines, of Berlin, N.Y., asked for Christmas trees so she could feed them to her six pet goats, she was not expecting such a warm response. Between New Year’s Eve and the first ...

How many goats does it take to eat a Christmas tree? And more importantly, why would they want to? It turns out discarded Christmas trees offer the goats a special treat for after the holiday season.