Forests provide many ecosystem services, including microclimate regulation, biodiversity preservation, air and water ...

Like most gardeners, I have favorite plants I’ve been growing for years and will continue to grow, like fragrant and tasty ...

Botanist Andrea Bianchi and local plant experts Aloyce Mwakisoma and his brother Ruben were exploring two tiny village forest ...

Through a course in dendrology, the study of the taxonomy of woody plants in the absence of flowers or fruits, two experts in ...

You'll be amazed by the ways desert birds survive and thrive in dry country. Learn about the bird species that live in ...

Climatic stress events, such as extreme temperatures and prolonged droughts, are increasingly affecting tree growth and ...

Small, transportable and mass-produced “microreactors” are seen as part of the future of nuclear power. Westinghouse ...

It’s sunny in San Francisco. I’m here for a writer’s conference and to visit our son and his wife. I’m beginning to feel like this is my town! I took ...

Cloud forests are biodiversity hot spots and crucial water sources. But climate change and deforestation are shrinking their range, new data show.

Roughly 91,000 metric tons of waste have stacked up at nuclear power plants in 35 states around the country because a permanent repository in the U.S. has not been built. For decades, Yucca ...

A plan to build a national storage facility northwest of Las Vegas at Yucca Mountain has been mothballed due to opposition from most Nevada residents and officials.

These include 73 commercial nuclear power plants and more than three dozen university and government ... Finland is completing final testing on an underground site—1,500 feet below a forest in the ...