This phenomenon, called marcescence, adds a unique dimension to the winter landscape, and gives me something to ponder while ...

Which birds fly at night? Do turtles hibernate? And do rattlesnakes stretch out on the ground? We have the answers.

Q. I saw a photo on Facebook of a rattlesnake with its head looking up at the base of an oak tree and its enormous body stretched out in the ...

When 9-year-old Ray Eye finally gets to go turkey hunting, his grandpa sends him into the woods by himself to call in a tom.

The park, created by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression, is named after the rare, endangered torreya tree found only ... cool and the leaves put on their show.

The Boy crunched his way through the deep, brown leaves, pulling aside small limbs and letting them flip back. He picked up a stick and poked here and there. “I’m looking for snakes,” he said. I told ...

Tax exemptions provide an incentive to qualifying landowners to preserve their woodlands, but bills introduced in the Iowa ...

A wrongful death lawsuit claims a Scranton woman died from a product containing kratom, a botanical native to Southeast Asia. With a scientific name of Mitragyna speciosa, kratom is a tropical tree in ...

Winter sowing gives seeds the chilling period (stratification) they need to break dormancy and germinate. Seeds sown into ...

A wrongful death lawsuit claims a Scranton woman died from a product containing kratom, a botanical native to Southeast Asia.