The native ferns that form a lush green understory in coastal redwood forests are well adapted to dry summers and periodic droughts, but California's current prolonged drought has taken a toll on them ...

SANTA CRUZ >> Beneath California’s iconic towering redwoods, ferns carpet the forest floor. The Western sword fern is the most common plant in the coastal redwood forest, and it’s showing signs of ...

The Van Eck Forest in northwestern California is home to iconic coast redwood trees, which store more above-ground carbon per ...

Dieback of ferns due to the drought can be seen in some areas of the campus redwood forest. (Photo by T. Stephens) A close-up of a western swordfern frond shows damage caused by thrips. (Photo ...

I suppose to most, ferns are just those plants that brush up against your calves while walking or hiking. They tickle and often make tick-weary hikers nervous wherever they lean into the trail. Emily ...

You walk in planning to purchase a bag of potting soil and, bewitched by green magic, walk out carrying a pear tree, blueberry bush, hydrangea hedge, carrot seeds, soaker hose and a new line of credit ...

Researchers have described seven new fern species from the rainforests of tropical America. Many of the species were uncovered as the by-product of ecological research: the species diversity in ...

In Photo: Fern farmers during busy days at the fern farm within the Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park. Today, members of the association have high hopes on farming the lowly fern, locally called ...

Nature did for me what yoga, psychedelics and therapy couldn’t. Young tree fern fiddleheads beginning to unfurl in the cloud forest of Santa Cruz Tepetotutla in Mexico.Credit...Daniel Borris for The ...