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What are some flowering perennial plants and herbs that are deer resistant?

With its late colour, bright berries and easy care, the sorbus always adds an unexpected note of cheer as the days darken

Ghosts, pumpkins and cakes… Halloween is a time to look back at the many happy years we’ve spent growing together

Tree roots are lazy. They grow best where water is easiest to get. And tree roots absolutely love fertilizer.

The prickly legend behind the thistle 'Miss Willmott's Ghost', whose spectral skeletons are some of the most impressive remnants in our sodden October gardens.

The neighbor is totally against the application, and for good reason

October’s summery temperatures are ‘confusing’ plants and throwing off fragile ecosystems

Hollies serve myriad functions in the landscape, from specimen to screen, and can be used to provide structure and color all year long.

Amid the heights of a mountain range in southwestern China, thousands of different species of rhododendrons mysteriously live together in harmony, without fighting as they do in other areas for the pollinators that are crucial to their continued survival.

If you are looking to upgrade your interior space, these eight home decor brands will instantly elevate your home's style.

Gardens in Dubai serve many purposes. Some are cleverly designed to meet the demands of the community and high climates, while others are big-ticket attractions. Among them, Dubai Miracle Garden is blooming with 150 million flowers, while Dubai Garden Glow is planted with 10 million LED lights. #CityScenes

Survey shows likelihood of planticide across the U.S.

There is nothing I admire more than evolution. But its difficult, more than with any other living thing, to imagine...

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On the Otago Peninsula, kākā chatter, ancient lizards hatch their eggs, and baby kiwis fatten up to fighting weight in a predator-free sanctuary

A new global study carried out by Kings College London has identified clear mental health benefits associated with seeing birds and hearing birdsong, including improvements in the symptoms of depression.

According to an online warning, decorations such as fake spiderweb ‘take a terrible toll’ on birds. We ask the experts how big a problem it is

Last week was marked by a number of outstanding sightings, according to Mass Audubon, including a Pacific loon in partial breeding plumage, an immature purple gallinule, a rufous hummingbird, a Townsends solitaire, a continuing LeContes sparrow and a Western tanager. On Friday, a major coastal migration of scoters, other sea ducks and laughing gulls led to small numbers of scoters appearing on interior lakes.

Meet the true believer racing to prove a grand American bird is still out there.

Champion birds can command massive prices, but those who spend their lives training them do it for the love – not money

The long-eared owl was rescued after being attacked by gulls off the north coast of Scotland.

The record for the longest one-way migration without touching land has been broken, with a bar-tailed godwit adding an extra seven hundred kilometers to the previous record.

The bird was tagged with a tracking GPS chip and tiny solar panel that enabled a research team to follow its first annual migration across the Pacific Ocean.

Hybrids of two common North American songbirds, the black-capped and mountain chickadee, are more likely to be found in places where humans have altered the landscape in some way, finds new University of Colorado Boulder research.

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If you dreamed of becoming a paleontologist when you were younger, it's not too late to pursue your dinosaur-hunting ambitions.

The La Brea Tar Pits were recognized as one of the world's First 100 IUGS Geological Heritage Sites for their stunning Ice Age fossil record.

A groundbreaking new research project has analyzed the evolution of the placental mammal skull using 3D scans of 322 specimens housed in more than 20 international museum collections, and crafted a new model of how mammals diversified based on the emerging patterns.

The tiny critter lived in the middle Jurassic period and has a mix of ancestral and modern lizard parts.

Dinosaur fans got a glimpse of a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton as it went on display in Singapore Friday before an auction next month, as experts slammed the big-money bone trade as "harmful to science".

UV light makes it possible to see intricate structures of fossils that are barely visible in normal daylight. This method has often been used on the fossilized seashells from the Earth's current geological era to reveal patterns of color that had long since faded away.

Commonly assumed to be silent, 53 animals have had their 'voices' added to a family tree of vocalizations in an effort to determine when acoustic communication emerged in evolutionary history.

These whales were likely slow swimmers, similar to today's manatees, and lived in shallow coastal seas 40 million years ago.

Group’s earliest primogenitor was probably a diminutive creature with a long snout, researchers suggest

A team of researchers, one with the University of Cambridge, the other three with the University of Oxford, has used whole-body 3D imaging technology to learn more about the evolutionary history of birds. Their paper is published in the journal Nature.

On the banks of Little Whanganui River, the fossilized ribs and vertebrae of a whale have been embedded in a shelf of sandstone for about 23 million years. That is,...

WEYERS CAVE, Va. (AP) Still low to the soil plots in late September, a collection of...

WEYERS CAVE, Va. (AP) Still low to the soil plots in late September, a collection of...

The traditional practice of mixing crops was nearly wiped out by industrial agriculture, but maslins are poised for a comeback.

Whether it was pandemic-driven supply chain delays, a war in Europe causing grain prices to spike or flooding in British Columbia disrupting rail line...

Exports from the United States, the world's third-largest producer, soared to 370,000 short tons of nutrient in August, more than double the year-earlier total.

One farmer’s quest to find black oats has broadened into a project that could rediversify the country’s cereals and meet future climate challenges

Farm crop losses due to widespread flooding exacerbated by the rising cost of fertiliser, fuel and herbicides

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Compared to conventional practices and bare soil, plant covers generated by intercropping between the alleys of olive groves increase carbon sequestration and reduce soil losses due to erosion.

/PRNewswire/ -- Banza, the maker of chickpea-based comfort foods, today announced its participation in the Soil Carbon Initiative (SCI), a new program from the...

SAINT-OURS, Que. - On the Beauchemin family farm in southern Quebec, the problem used to be too much water. But Raphal Beauchemin says that over the ...

Harvest-themed celebrations include an elaborate display featuring a whopping 2,234-pound pumpkin and plenty of local apples.

For the first time, zinc isotope ratios in tooth enamel have been analyzed with the aim of identifying the diet of a Neanderthal. The Neanderthal to whom the tooth belonged was probably a carnivore. Other chemical tracers indicate that this individual did not consume the blood of their prey, b

Several Zimbabwean skulls were found in archives but none belong to Zimbabwe's anti-colonial heroes.

The tooth's owner was primarily a meat eater

A beet farmer discovered an ornate Bronze Age gold belt on his land in the Czech Republic.

All the biggest science news stories of the week.

The remnants of a stockade indicate the site of a prison camp in York, Pa., that housed British soldiers for two years during the Revolutionary War.

Researchers say they have solved a decades-old riddle by finding remnants of the stockade and therefore the site of a prison camp in York, Pennsylvania, that housed British soldiers for nearly two years during the American Revolutionary War

The remains of the one-year-old were found naturally mummified in the crypt belonging to an aristocratic Austrian family.

Cave paintings from the Lascaux complex in France to Ubirr in Australia have one characteristic in commonthey depict hunters and their prey. Very few of our Paleolithic ancestors seemed interested in doing still-life paintings of fruit and veg. Which is a shame, given that they would almost certainly have eaten a more balanced diet than we often give them credit for, says Cristiani.

Human skeletal remains have been found at Lake Mead near Las Vegas for the sixth time this year. A contractor found a human bone while diving in the Callville Bay area of the park in Nevada.

The park service dive team scanned the underwater area after a commercial diver discovered what appeared to be a human bone at the recreation area.

After a diver found what appeared to be a human bone in Lake Mead, the park searched the area and uncovered more human remains, the National Park Service confirmed Wednesday.

El NioSouthern Oscillation (ENSO) is an irregular periodic variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean that affects the climate of much of the tropics and subtropics. This natural phenomenon is important to study because of the socioeconomic impacts it c

Researchers examining data going back to 1990s find global south has borne brunt despite causing least emissions

There won't be many places in the world that have escaped the recent impacts of unusual droughts, floods and unseasonal temperatures. These are often ascribed to the role of greenhouse gases, leading to climate change. But there are additional causes. An international research team has found an additional threat: the impacts of changes in vegetation cover, especially forest loss.

The risks from climate change are likely to be greater than economists usually calculate, because their models routinely exclude potentially devastating but hard-to-quantify threats such as the collapse of ocean circulation currents, civil breakdowns and major weather disasters, according to a new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

The media amplifies our fears by promoting unvetted scientific studies that argue climate change is linked to 5 million deaths a year.

When you take a look at the brief, you will see that we are directly and openly challenging the fake science of predicted catastrophic human-caused global warming from GHGs.

The diurnal temperature range has a significant effect on growing seasons, crop yields, residential energy consumption and human health issues related to heat stress.

A recent study reveals the complexities of temperature trends over the last 12,000 years. Because climate measurements seldom go back more than 150 years, we depend on climate models to predict the future, however, these models cannot be fully tested. Understanding the Earth's historical climate

Third consecutive La Niña, which has brought widespread rain and flooding to eastern Australia in 2022, is likely to end by next February, models show

By Andy May The atmospheric heat transport on Earth from the Equator to the poles is largely carried out by the mid-latitude storms. However, there is no satisfactory theory to describe this funda

Climate change is shrinking the difference between the daily high temperature and the daily low in many parts of the world. The gap between the two, known as the diurnal temperature range (DTR), has a significant effect on growing seasons, crop yields, residential energy consumption and human health issues related to heat stress. But why and where the DTR shrinks with climate change has been something of a mystery.

Clouds are notoriously hard to pin down, especially in climate science.