MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) —The city of Murfreesboro has launched an effort to bring more native plants back to town through ...

Gardeners are embracing native plants more and more for their environmental benefits, But native annuals are often overlooked ...

Many of the boabab, tamarind, and kapok trees on St. Croix are hundreds of years old, and they have been around long enough ...

Probably the first pioneer plants to arrive in Hawaii were mosses and ferns. Ferns have been around for over 360 million ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with writer and critic Lawrence Burney about his new essay collection out titled No Sense in Wishing.

Parthenium spreads easily through grazing land because it outcompetes native grasses, and none of the local insects eat it. That's the problem with invasive plants — species that are transported from ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator bordered by the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in ...

Wild tomatoes on the Galápagos Islands may be providing scientists with an unprecedented look at “devolution” according to a new study.

KARE11 Sunrise Minneapolis artists plant paper, restore native prairie The Paper Plains is tearing up the notion that paper must come at nature's expense.

This program connects women landowners and stewards to educational events and resources focused on conservation. Their goal is to empower women and encourage biodiversity by reintroducing native plant ...

The Nature Conservancy Hawaiʻi and Palmyra recently announced that Kalani Quiocho, who was born and raised on the Big Island, is its new Hawaiʻi Island Marine Program director.