Marvin Fournier launched two canoes off a city park boat dock on a recent December afternoon, as he has done countless times ...

In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings. It’s only here and in northern Mexico that the ...

The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some ...

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Pop-up tree lots sprout up all over Chicago during the holidays, only to disappear. What's a day in the life of this unique ...

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The holly traditionally associated with Christmas is native to England and other parts of Europe, North Africa and western ...

Ginger Creek in Oakbrook is connected to other bodies of water so there’s a high chance that hydrilla has spread.

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Raking the thatch lets light in and gives native plants a chance to grow," said Marko Spasojevic, study author and UCR associate professor of plant ecology. In grasslands near the UCR campus ...

“Andean bears have a broad diet, including more than 300 plants,” Nicholas Pilfold, a study co-author and conservation ...