These “blue rings,” visible ... examined pine trees and juniper shrubs in the Arctic. The research team ventured to Mount Iškoras in northern Norway, where these plants battle harsh Arctic ...

Blue corn is an important food to the Navajo people. It’s the title of a new book of poems by Amber McCrary, "Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert." ...

Selecting Mount Iškoras in Norway for a search for blue rings, a team of researchers took samples from 25 pine trees and 54 juniper shrubs, representing the species Pinus sylvestris and Juniperus ...

I love the photos of gardens where they are clustered together and did something similar grouping mine around a blue glazed ceramic ... White M hairstreak, Juniper hairstreak, Gulf Fritillary ...

A native species, it has some characteristics of an invasive ... It is also not a pine tree like most of Missouri’s other evergreens. The eastern red cedar is a juniper and a member of the cypress ...

contributing to an impressive cumulative total of 180 species recorded on Ocracoke since the count’s inception 42 years ago. Eastern Bluebird. Photo by Jeff Beane Some of the unusual birds for this ...

Preserving pinyon and juniper forests is urgent for the plant, animal, and human communities that depend on them, including ...

Overall, only 2.1% of the pine trees' rings and 1.3% of the juniper shrubs' rings were blue; the cells which hadn't lignified properly were mainly found at the end of growth rings, in latewood ...