The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

Trichocallia delicatula, or the beautiful hairy ghost shrimp, has “tubular, hair-like” growths on the pleopods, or fan-like structures on the tail of the shrimp, making it appear fluffy, according to ...

The center of a tree or shrub stem (from roots to trunk, branches, and twigs) is woody, composed of xylem cells that conduct water from the roots to the upper parts of the tree. That woody section is ...

In maturity, the basswood develops a pyramidal shape and can grow to 80 feet high and 50 feet wide. The heart-shaped leaves ...

Three years ago, while exploring the Mojanda mountain range in Ecuador, a team of researchers from a local NGO and a ...

Chocolate is sourced from cacao, a crop that demonstrates the importance of sustainability innovation in the industries we ...

Dear Neil: I’m seeing the landscape guys putting mounds of mulch around tree trunks in town. Is that really a good idea? It seems like it would cause decay in the wood of the trunks.

As the early morning mist lifts over the plains of northern Uganda, women gather at the Pader Shea Nut and Agro-processing ...

The U.S. could lose up to 15 million acres of forestland to development by 2060. One effort to keep forests intact is to give ...

The lack of snowfall in Himachal Pradesh has left apple growers in the lurch. Snowless and warmer winter conditions there ...

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