Trees are an essential part of any landscape, providing lasting structure and beauty. Discover gorgeous trees that add color and texture to the garden all year long. Learn how to use these trees to ...

Research shows that a phenomenon called St. Elmo’s Fire, which occurs during thunderstorms, may be much more common than ...

Because the sparking happens so uniformly across the branches they observed, the team suspects the phenomenon scales up massively. Tens to hundreds of leaves on every treetop under a thunderstorm ...

In the summer of 2024, the researchers hit the road, chasing storms from Florida to Pennsylvania. Finally, they got lucky: While camped out during a thunderstorm in Pembroke, North Carolina, they ...

The historic Chateau at the Oregon Caves is an architectural gem that deserves recognition beyond its role as a place to ...

That spider is one of several new animal species recently described by researchers in Vietnam, India, the Philippines, Borneo, and Peru. Each creature has evolved its own strategy for hiding in plain ...

A freshwater ecologist explains why the mountain is less a postcard and more a slow-leaking, bug-monitored water machine.

The Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve in Cave Junction is proof that sometimes the most extraordinary landscapes are ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown lizard species — Grismer’s pricklenape lizard — in a remote forest in Vietnam’s Dak Lak Province, after nighttime fieldwork and DNA analysis confirmed ...

Public Works Director Paul Brazil emphasized during the Feb. 10 meeting that his staff was still in the preliminary stages of planning. While council members liked the idea of adding shade trees to ...