<P> Winter weather breaks and a Southern Marylander's fancy turns to the little green things in the yard. For many, the fact that something is growing and perhaps even flowering under the warming ...

In a recent article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Qianshi Lin from the University of British Columbia in Canada and colleagues report finding a new lineage of ...

The spread of species beyond their native habitat is a human-made environmental change on a global scale. Among vascular plants, over 16,000 species have now permanently settled in foreign countries.

It’s easy to forget plants are “alive” because they hardly move on their own. No more. This timelapse of plants growing and blooming and shooting up and blossoming shows plants move like aliens. Every ...

Most home gardeners pottering around with trowel, plant cuttings and a bag of mulch behind the old homestead don’t think of themselves as “nature’s best and last hope.” Doug Tallamy, an entomologist ...

Invasive plants. They may have innocent enough names, such as porcelainberry and tree-of-heaven and Oriental bittersweet. But make no mistake about it, they are killers and they want to take over your ...

They are thriving and more than capable of wiping out the natives. Go to Memorial Town Hall at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to find out how to recognize and eliminate them (or at least contain them) before they ...

If you missed these incredible sculptures at last weekend’s Queens Art Express, you can still see Bollinger’s work at SculptureCenter in LIC. Veggies growing in midair, crops that tweet when they’re ...

Earth hosts a variety of alien-like species, from the ribbon worm and syphonophore to the carnivorous pitcher plant and ...

Led by the University of Sydney, a scientific team has analysed the nutritional content of Christmas Island flying foxes' diets and found that introduced plant species do not provide a balanced meal.