Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The vegetable kingdom is full of wonders and mysteries, as Schlanger lavishly demonstrates in The Light Eaters. For one, plants ...

During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...

Longtime gardener, tomato expert and author Craig LeHoullier said he still sometimes gets nervous reading reviews of his book, “Epic Tomatoes.” Despite his worry, he typically ends up pleased that the ...

In a way, it’s kind of a little miracle. You place tiny little seeds in dirt — DIRT! — and you keep it damp. Wait a week or so, and something grows. Wait a bit longer and that something becomes food ...

If you’re a human living on this planet, you should get to know Doug Tallamy, the entomologist and University of Delaware professor whose groundbreaking 2006 book, “Bringing Nature Home,” supercharged ...

The benefits of trees are boundless. Whether it is the calming aesthetics of a tree-lined path or street, the cooling shade of a looming oak on a summer day, or the joy of watching wildlife shelter ...

Trees first appeared around 400 million years ago. They survived the mass-extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago and lived through several glacial periods during which ...