Forget parsley and mint, try these instead
My landscaper is recommending a redbud tree in the planter attached to my pool. I asked him if that’s a good tree to plant so close to the pool.
Local nurseries are stocking up on Zone 5 hardy plants gardeners can try.
Inside Princess Diana's brother Charles, 9th Earl Spencer's breathtakingly beautiful gardens at Althorp House, from Diana's lakeside resting place to fairytale-worthy wildlife.
Across British Columbias south coast, gardeners are finding dead or damaged plants due to a cold snap that sent temperatures plunging to 13.7 C in Richmond
Spring is right around the corner and to get your yard ready you'll want to make sure you prune these 7 plants first.
Get the most out of your outside space, with our month-by-month gardening guide full of top tips
Though some crown rust fungi are known to cause widespread damage to oat and barley crops, new research from the University of Minnesota suggests a close relative of these major pathogens could actually be a valuable asset in managing two highly invasive wetland plants in Minnesota.
Women have long been at the forefront of gardening in America, whether passing on knowledge to the next generation or creating garden clubs or in some cases making significant contributions to science and landscape design
Forget parsley and mint, try growing bergamot, lemon grass and sweet cicely to perk up your dishes.
Completed in 2023 in South Brisbane, Australia. Images by Mark Nilon Photography, Tom Ferguson, Scott Burrows Photographer. The architectural form of Upper House draws inspiration from the Moreton Bay Fig, with architectural roots taking us on a journey from our ancient...
The organisation which looks after the country’s 1,500 public forests also expects a bumper display of the flowers in woodlands.
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Special sightings last week included single eared grebes in East Gloucester and Marblehead, Bohemian waxwings in Yarmouth Port, Sunderland, Dalton, and Williamstown, and a continuing Townsends warbler in Cambridge.
During a walk through the Huntington Botanical Gardens with her mother one morning, Brenda Ramirez was alarmed by the sudden squawks, warbles, and screeches of troops of parrots flying overhead at great speed in tight, precise formations.
Flocks of migrating birds are still meeting a cruel end on their flight path through the island, particularly at a British military base.
The discovery has been a cause for excitement in the birding community, but also for concern publicity could draw crowds and lead the birds to abandon their eggs
Organized crime rings in Cyprus reportedly killed over 400,000 songbirds last fall.
A green honeycreeper with a body half male and half female captivates scientists.
The American Ornithological Society decided to excise all names of people from birds and replace them with something more descriptive. The move started in an effort to remove controversial names and ended in a unilateral change to names that help you identify the bird.
A weekly digest of literary events from around the region.
The out-of-place bird prompted the hotel to put its famed fountain show on hold before biologists captured and moved the birdone of the country's ten rarestto better habitat
Birds migrating from north to south are a given, but migrating from the southwest to the southeast is a little rarer. A burrowing owl is overwintering on a Tennessee River peninsula near New Johnsonville, Tennessee, marking the first sighting of the species in the state, and a Mississippi State wildlife ecologist is researching the fascinating oddity.
A sentimental perspective helps identify those essential creatures and habitats we have carelessly lost.
A visit from a rare, fine-feathered tourist has interrupted one of Las Vegas' prominent shows.
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New research shows that the Spinosaurus might not have been a swimming dinosaur at all. Instead, it might have hunted along the shoreline.
Birds with teeth were common during the time of the dinosaurs, but a newly discovered species is changing the way scientists understand avian evolution.
Pteranodon were not only among the largest pterosaurs, but also one of the largest flying animals ever.
Why are these fish living fossils? Because they GAR.
A man found nearly complete Titanosaurus fossils while walking his dog in a small town in France back in 2022.
Scientists have discovered remnants of the Earth's oldest fossil forest on the north coast of Devon and Somerset in the U.K. The trees, which are about 390 million years old, are thought to have grown as part of an extensive forest covering the east coast of the Old Red Sandstone continentpart of Europe at that time.
Scientists working in southwest England have found the oldest fossilized forest known on Earth, according to a new study.
A nearly complete and intact dinosaur skeleton has been excavated in France. The specimen is a Titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs of its time.
The 390 million year old Calamophyton trees resembled modern day palm trees and changed the course of some ancient rivers.
A French man walking his dog in 2022 came across nearly fully intact dinosaur bones protruding out from a cliff in the town of Montouliers, CBS News reported.
Paleontologists have uncovered the existence of an extinct apex marine predator whose nightmarish face and dagger-like teeth were reminiscent of the titular protagonist of Tatsuki Fujimotos Chainsaw Man manga series.
Some of these giant vegetarians were as tall as a 3-story building. Microscopic analysis of their teeth, bones and eggshells reveals how they grew, what they ate and even their body temperature.
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PARIS: Grain growers in western Europe will need rain to ease this month to progress with spring planting, after a...
The rapidly expanding aquatic fern possesses the nutritional profile necessary to act as a crucial food source in post-disaster scenarios and could be relevant now. An often-overlooked water plant that can double its biomass in two days, capture nitrogen from the air making it a valuable green fe
/PRNewswire/ -- Source.ag, the provider of AI solutions for fruit and vegetable growers, today launched Source Irrigation Control: an autonomous irrigation...
There is the dream of living and working on the moon or planet Mars. But what are the inhabitants going to eat out there, and how are they going to grow their food? A circular and sustainable agricultural ecosystem for food production will be essential.
/PRNewswire/ -- ProGro Bio Inc, the manufacturer of the most impressive 100% organic soil inoculant, today announced the success of its 2023 Rhizol Field...
Two affected swans were cleaned up and released
/PRNewswire/ -- The University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, a leading land-grant institution, recently found that...
/PRNewswire/ -- NewLeaf Symbiotics, the global leader and pioneer of pink-pigmented facultative methylotrophs (PPFMs), has announced the launch of TS201, its...
/PRNewswire/ -- Lundberg Family Farms, a leading grower of organic rice and maker of best-selling packaged rice and rice snacks, is now the leading U.S....
/PRNewswire/ -- To the agriculture industry collaboration, Growing Matters, our planet and people come first. That's why its annual BeSure! campaign is back...
Cutting edge agriculture just got a bit better.
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Clothes don't survive the way artifacts made of stone, bone and other hard materials do, so scientists have to get creative to answer this question.
Stone tools found buried deep in the sediment of the Korolevo quarry in Ukraine are rewriting the history of human migration.
Blood relations and kinship were not all-important for the way hunter-gatherer communities lived during the Stone Age in Western Europe. A new genetic study, conducted at several well-known French Stone Age burial sites, shows that several distinct families lived together. This was probably a delibe
Could the ancient bread found at atalhyk in Turkey be the world's oldest loaf?
A new study from the Nihewan basin of China has revealed that hominins who possessed advanced knapping abilities equivalent to Mode 2 technological features occupied East Asia as early as 1.1 million years ago (Ma), which is 0.3 Ma earlier than the date associated with the first handaxes found in Ea
You probably don't think much about your chin, except as a convenient place to rest your head while you stare at a computer screen. But consider this: It's the most recognizably human thing about you.
Recent findings support the theory that Easter Island locals may have developed writing before the arrival of Europeans.
A report published Thursday detailed ongoing research at an ancient burial site that may have been used by both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals
The National Trust is working with Time Team on the two-year research project.
The 1.4-million-year-old rocks may have belonged to Homo erectus, and they shed light on migrations of human ancestors, a new study suggests
The most populous country in the world, India, has long been left out of genetic studies, leaving a massive gap in our understanding of human origins and appreciation of the genetic diversity of our species.
Researchers used AI to reconstruct Neanderthal fashion.
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Observations of unprecedented ocean temperatures in 2023 may become typical in a world that is 5.4F (3.0C) warmer than pre-industrial levels, according to a new study. From March 2023, the North Atlantic began to show extremely warm temperatures far exceeding anything seen in the past 40 years.
While many states are experiencing record warmth, Las Vegas and the Southwest are sticking fairly close to normal winter temperatures.
How extreme weather and climate events change is an intriguing issue in the context of global warming. As IPCC AR6 points out, cold extremes have become less frequent and less severe since the 1950s, mainly driven by human-induced climate change. However, cold extremes could also exhibit robust interdecadal changes at regional scale.
The average temperature was 37.6 degrees for the December-through-February period, known as meteorological winter.
Visakhapatnam: Year 2023 has been adjudged the hottest year ever since the time record-keeping began, notes a report by the private weather website Skymet.Earths average land and ocean surface...
The El Nio weather phenomenon, coupled with widespread drought, is posing an increasing risk to food security in southern Africa, a UN agency warned Friday.
Months of record breaking temperatures and the El Nio weather phenomenon pushed the heating up of the world's oceans to a new peak in February, scientists said.
The Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (STEP) established a scientific expedition team for the water vapor channel of the Yarlung Tsangbo Grand Canyon in the southeast of the Tibetan Plateau. In the past five years, the expedition team has conducted observations and research on water vapor transport and heavy precipitation around the Yarlung Tsangbo Grand Canyon.
Climate scientists have simulated Arrakis as a desert and with its long-lost oceans.
Hottest February and all-time high ocean temps continue alarming global trend, data show.
The effects of a warm winter in the upper Midwest are evident in the lack of lake ice. Ice coverage on the Great Lakes typically reaches its annual peak in late February or early March. But at that time in 2024, the lakes were conspicuously free of ice. Owing to warmer winter weather and above-av
For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat recordswith February, the winter as a whole and the world's oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus.
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