John Graham, who has died aged 92, was better known to Guardian crossword solvers as Araucaria. In the summer of 1958, on the strength of his success in winning the Observer's crossword setting ...

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The araucaria tree of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest could go extinct within the next 50 years due to permissive state policies allowing them to be cleared. While the species is listed as critically ...

Pine nuts from the araucaria trees of the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina are driving a chain of sustainable production involving more than a dozen municipalities from the mountain region of the ...

One of the more unusual trees growing in Redlands is the Araucaria bidwillii, commonly called the bunya-bunya tree or false monkey puzzle tree. This large evergreen coniferous tree is a member of one ...

Paintings books and plays often contain clues as to the artist or writer's state, but what about a crossword? A master of the art of the cryptic crossword, the Guardian's Araucaria, had something very ...

Araucaria wood was once Brazil's leading export. But deforestation and overexploitation of the country's coastal forests have reduced the once mighty pine species to a symbol of the dangers ...

Text description provided by the architects. Set among the Araucaria trees, surrounded by farm animals, the greenhouse was designed so that the family could care for the plants, play games and spend ...