Forests offer farmers a specialized area for growing all kinds of crops. Mushrooms are excellent in forest farming systems, ...

Plants are often attributed with abilities similar to those known in the animal or human world. Trees are said to have feelings and can therefore care for their offspring, like mothers. Researchers ...

Botanists discovered a new plant species in Colombia that is already endangered, naming it Aphelandra almanegra.

If you are looking to harvest more homegrown food in your garden, why not take a note from nature and grow like a forest? In the wild, plants grow in complimentary layers to maximize space and ...

Scientists named 190 new plants and fungi in 2025, many already threatened. New DNA tools are speeding discovery as habitat ...

Plants growing at the bottom of giant sinkholes in China are so awash in nutrients, they grow faster than their surface-dwelling counterparts, all while using less of a fundamental building block, a ...

The perfectly manicured lawn can be a neighborhood source of envy. But the leafless yard and immaculately groomed flower beds are consuming space needed for all manner of wildlife. Native plant ...

A new study shows that most native European temperate forest plants are adapted to semi-open, light-filled woodlands – formed over millions of years by the influence of large, free-ranging herbivores ...

A new study from the National Park Service (NPS) found that long-term forest health is dependent on reducing the number of deer and the removal of invasive plants. Scientists with the NPS and Schoodic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo by tchara/Getty Images) As Washington residents who live near Longview and Hoquiam, we are concerned about two wood pellet ...