An Italian mountain town is trying to stop their favourite tree being cut down and given to Pope Francis for Christmas. The 200-year-old fir, nicknamed The Green Giant, has been earmarked as a ...

Italy is determined to save Patriarch, a millennial olive tree which the forest fires in Sardinia have devoured, but has mobilized tens of experts to try and recover this rare botanic antiquity.

There has been flooding and landslides in parts of northern Italy as red alerts cover cities including Florence and Pisa.

And tree houses don’t come much more lavish than The Suite on the Oak, nestled on the organic La Piantata agriturismo (a farm with tourist accommodation), in the lavender hills of Lazio ...