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Scientific research may not have evidence of the sacred, but there is a large body of work that shows the positive effects of ...

Most travelers assume summer is the best time to visit Sequoia & Kings Canyon, but that could not be further from the truth.

Genetic modification is the only credible path to restoring the blight-wracked American chestnut. Bruce Beehler is a ...

Walk into the woods and you are bound to find standing dead trees, otherwise known as snags. Here's what you may not know about them.

A University of Queensland-led team has completed one of the most comprehensive surveys of Australia's subtropical ...

This kind of boomerang weather is called false spring — a day or two of warmth bracketed on either end by cold — and it is a ...

CHEPSTOW, Wales — "Wassail!" yelled the crowd. "Cider for everyone!" In an orchard by a Welsh castle, hundreds of people ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

A barred owl made quite a stir in Arlington, Virginia, over the Christmas holiday. The bird evidently was playing Santa Claus ...

A welcome winter thaw before Christmas called me into the woods. My dog and I followed our usual hiking path, up and down hills in the remnant Big Woods adjacent to where I live. The top layer of ...

Happy Falalala-llamakkah, one and all. With Hanukkah and Christmas bumping together this year, a holiday theme for the ages is ready to go – llamas. What do we mean? We ...