A research team led by Prof. Huang Zhenying from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has discovered a remarkable survival strategy—a unique seed dormancy cycling mechanism ...

From Cape Town’s cosseting hotels and the culinary pleasures of the Winelands to dramatic wildlife sightings at Sabi Sand, a ...

Elegant and regal, magnolia is the queen of trees and one of the oldest flowers on the planet. Hazel Sillver looks at its ...

Genetic modification is the only credible path to restoring the blight-wracked American chestnut. Bruce Beehler is a ...

Mount Tom, right in the heart of Woodstock, offers panoramic views of the village and surrounding countryside. It’s the ...

Scientists discovered that the red stigmas in wind-pollinated trees accumulate anthocyanin, the same compounds that are revealed in autumn leaves after green chlorophyll production slows down and ...

Chinar trees, which once stood vulnerable to illegal felling, are now receiving the protection they deserve. With geo-tagging ...

I mopped my brow with the bottom of my T-shirt. “I am sweating like a pig.” “Nope.” Cousin Ollie shook his head. “Pigs ...

Spring trees begin to bloom this issue. Trees are noble works of nature, and we are humbled by their greatness. While walking ...

Record snowfall in January has severely damaged apple orchards in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Aomori, the country's ...

The scorched earth in Biriya Forest reflects just one of many environmental effects of nearly a year and a half of war for ...

Biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are riding large, heavy-duty mowers through Rogers Lakewood Park on ...