Find a tall stick. That and one good eye are all the tools you’ll need. With the stick in hand, walk exactly 11 paces from the base of the tree and mark the spot by driving the stick into the ground.

A Goddard Space Flight Center scientist used the space shuttle to measure the topography of some of the world’s most inaccessible places, including the texture of sand dunes of the Kalahari desert and ...

UPDATE: The tree measured at 17 feet, 7 inches, growing five inches this past decade. Today, outside the Historic 1917 Courthouse in Chesterfield, folks will gather at 4 p.m. to take part in an ...