Des Moines has provided tens of thousands of free trees to its residents to plant on private property. Nine species are available in 2025.

Even botanists can be surprised at the sheer variety of a houseplant often known only for being indestructible.

We have a natural fascination with time—how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, ...

University of Minnesota Extension If you traveled through rural Minnesota last winter, you probably realized some of the benefits of windbreaks and living snow ...

Nut trees make great additions to your yard - and your kitchen - but which are worth growing, and which should you avoid? Let ...

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

A team of geologists, paleontologists, and climate scientists with members from institutions in Mexico, the U.S., and Spain ...

In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing species, a recent study has found. Having examined 1,207 tree species ...

Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation. There were 42 new additions to the national list of ...

Alanda Richardson is no longer the CEO of the Hickory Public Housing Authority. Housing authority commissioner Sherry Griffin said Richardson was terminated with cause at a Thursday meeting of the ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...