The World from PRX

Christmas trees

Coniferous trees in Yoho National Park reach toward the sky with snow-topped mountains in the background in Canada's stretch of the Rocky Mountains, straddling the border of British Columbia and Alberta
Environment
Extreme weather events lead to Christmas tree shortage in Canada
The Christmas tree at Faneuil Hall marketplace in downtown Boston is from Long Island, New York. But is it a religious symbol? Many people say, not really.
Religion
Are Christmas trees religious? Well, yes … and no.
The branches of a Christmas tree ready to be harvested are seen in a field at Wick Farm in Colchester, Britain, November 29, 2017.
Culture
What I learned by getting my very first Christmas tree
A view across the devastated city of Halifax, Nova Scotia after the Halifax Explosion, looking toward the harbor.
Conflict
The 1917 explosion in Halifax that reverberated in Boston