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Award-winning garden writer Carol Stocker offers advice on what to do in the garden this week, deadheading flowers, and planting bulbs. | realestate.boston.com

The pandemic is a perfect time to savor the gardens at St. Paul's Como Park.

Curvy Instagram model Ashley Resch took to her social media page with a stunning display of her ample assets on Saturday afternoon. The Canadian beauty showcased her nearly bare booty and threw her ...

Are garden tomatoes safe to eat? Will ash harm the soil? What about cleanup? OSU Extension Service experts have answers

Most of the damage done to plants during high summer temperatures was due to a lack of water. And if there are strong winds, they also use more water. The bottom line, if it’s a hot, bright, windy day, it’s time to water now.

Need a socially distant hobby? You can build an indoor garden and supportlocal businesses almost entirely from home.

His request was a little ... odd, but you know.

Heres where to get help planning your annual leaf-peeping.

Walk through the neighborhood, a local park or a natural area and you can be immersed in the color that is equated with sun. Certainly sunshine is something we all need right now.

Gardeners' World host Monty Don responded to a fan who commented on his poor gardening skills at his private home.

Reap the bounty of natures pantry by learning to identify and responsibly harvest wild edibles on the trail or in your neighborhood.

On Friday, the facility received the latest set of human remains from the fires, bringing the death toll to nine. The victim was recovered from Marion County; identification is pending, Oregons chief medical examiner said.

These findings represent the earliest evidence for Homo sapiens on the Arabian Peninsula, and demonstrates the importance of Arabia for understanding human prehistory.

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered seven well-preserved footprints belonging to humans. Dated to around 120,000 years ago, these appear to be the oldest evidence of our species in the region.

The very first human beings originally emerged in Africa before spreading across Eurasia about 60,000 years ago. After that, the story of humankind heads down many different paths, some more well-studied than others. Eastern regions of Eurasia are home to approximately 2.3 billion people today roughly 30% of the worlds population. Archaeologists know from […]

Study suggests an adult man and a juvenile girl crafted the red ocher paintings seen at Spain's Los Machos rock shelter

'Mystery' endures in France over Montaigne tomb: archaeologist

The discovery gives strength to the idea that the Arabian Peninsula was a key route from Africa for early migrations of Homo sapiens.

Traces of violence on 1700 year old skeletons allow researchers to reconstruct warfare and sacrifices of nomads in Siberia. An international and interdisciplinary team of anthropologists, archaeologists and specialists in forensic sciences led by Marco Milella from the University of Bern performed a detailed and revealing analysis of the traumas found on the skeletal remains.

Using high resolution paleoecological information obtained from fossilized footprints, a new study published in Science Advances presents ~120 thousand-year-old human and animal footprints from an ancient lake bed in northern Arabia. These findings represent the earliest evidence for humans in this part of the world and show that human and animal movements and landscape use were closely linked.

Some of the oldest remains of early human ancestors have been unearthed in Olduvai Gorge, a rift valley setting in northern Tanzania where anthropologists

Experts say discovery of 120,000 year old prints could shed new light on spread of <em>Homo sapiens</em> out of Africa

Farmers in North Dakota put their harvests on hold last week to help a neighbor who experienced a heart attack after his combine caught fire.

The Delft University of Technology student start-up Loop has developed a living coffin made from mycelium. The Living Cocoon helps the body to compost more efficiently, removes toxic substances, and produces richer conditions in which to grow (new) trees and plants. After extensive testing, includ

The U is leading research effort into boosting production of Kernza, a new strain of wheatgrass.

Farms produce the gases that cause climate change. Here's how we can change that and help farmers, too.

A new study finds that glyphosate residue from herbicides in manure fertilizer decrease the growth of strawberry and meadow fescue as well as runner production of strawberry.

Sugar group Tereos expects the average yield for its French growers in this year's sugar beet harvest to fall by about 12% from last year after crop disease hit some growing regions, it said on Friday.

High soy prices are expected to support planting in Argentina this season, but that will be balanced by dry weather, which is driving farmers across the Pampas grains belt to favor late-season corn, which also has attractive prices.

Severe droughts have drained rivers and reservoirs across parts of India, and more than half a billion people in the worlds second-most populous nation are estimated to run out of drinking water by 2030. Signs of this are apparent in farms, which consume the vast majority of total water supplies. Farmers have been struggling in […]

The collaboration revealed that the symbiotic relationship between plants and fungi provides nitrates to plants, which could lead to reduced fertilizer use.

Chicago-traded soybeans have been on an uncharacteristic run over the last several weeks, breaking through double-digit prices for the first time in the U.S.-China trade war era, possibly incentivizing U.S. producers to significantly boost bean plantings next year.

With its pugnacity and lightning-quick strikes, the mongoose has a formidable reputation as a hunter

The most famous name in American ornithology is that of a slave owner, grave robber, and fraud who invented birds and falsified scientific results. Birders and ornithologists are grappling with John James Audubons legacy today, but problematic behavior doesnt stop at a single 19th-century naturalist. Some in the field are considering a complete rethinking of which naturalists we idolize with honorific bird names. <meta property=

/PRNewswire/ -- When the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EAZA) launched its Silent Forest campaign, it was among the most successful initiatives of...

New England Wildlife Center provides urgent medical care for injured bunnies, snakes, hawks, and more.

This kind of pollution is going to be damaging to all living things, pointed out Portland Audubon director of conservation Bob Sallinger.

Wild Justice accuses UK government of breaching duty to protect conservation sites

A British-based wild bird body has issued a gag order telling employees not to comment on its decision to expel a Taiwan conservation group that refused to sign a document related to the Chinese-claimed island's political position.

There are biblical things happening in the deserts of New Mexico.

A leaked report has found WaterNSW did not adequately assess how the project could affect iconic species such as the platypus and echidna

Feast your eyes on these 5 quintessential marshland landscapes.

In &quot;It&#039;s a Bird,&quot; a Black teen bird watcher sees African Americans who have been killed by police through an old pair of binoculars.

You havent been the only whos wondered what happened to the birds. The wildfire smoke descended on this region, and just like that, for some of you, the birds you...

Scientists are trying to understand the mechanism behind the West African lungfish's regeneration ability and how the genetics behind it could apply to us.

New Zealand is surrounded by highly productive oceans that attract seabirds from around the world, forming a global hotspot for seabird diversity. Establishing how and when this hotspot formed has been challenged by a lack of fossil discoveries connecting New Zealand's living seabirds to their ancient relatives.

Paleontology enthusiasts with an extra $8 million lying around can bid on Stan, a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex

Scientists have unearthed the largest and oldest sperm ever recorded dating back nearly 100 million years from an ancient crustacean encased in amber.

Two intact fossils of Changmiania liaoningensis suggest that the animals were trapped by a volcanic eruption while resting at the bottom of their burrows.

He weighed at least 7 tons and had eyes the size of baseballs. His bite could have crushed a car. He bore scars from fierce prehistoric battles.

Microfossils offer up an array of information to scientists, like the time periods in which they lived and how environments have changed.

Our new research has discovered how a series of volcanic eruptions 233 million years ago fundamentally changed life on Earth.

A warmer world could lead to more discoveries in the near future

On October 6, Christies will be auctioning off Stanone of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons ever found. The skeleton could fetch a record price at the auction, with estimates as high as $8 million. <meta property=

The prime minister’s green credentials have yet to materialise and his silence on Cop26 is a warning

Americans may be finding some common sense about building homes in vulnerable areas.

"The clock is a way to speak science to power," says a project co-founder.

Climate campaigners unveiled a huge countdown clock on Saturday, showing how little time is left before global temperatures hit a critical high, to kick off a week of climate action in New York.

Their convergence is perhaps the strongest signal yet that the calamity climate scientists have warned of for years isn't far off.

The Metronome in Union Square now displays the time left before we burn all the carbon that will push the planet over the key 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. <meta property=

The British Financial Times has admitted there is a grain of truth behind the idea that China is using climate ideology to exploit the West.

Democratic voters are more concerned, and the wildfires are adding to the urgency.

Thanks to more powerful models, climate scientists have more confidence in the role that warming plays in extreme events.

The world's wildlife population has declined by more than two-thirds in the last 50 years; a new sea urchin study will provide insight into climate change.

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