The best time to prune most of our deciduous trees and shrubs is late winter. One reason is that insect pests and plant ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Hardy ornamental grasses, like pink muhly, can be cut back to 6 to 8 inches above the ground. The red-leaf grasses are tropical ...

In the rocks and caves of Thailand, a “grass green” creature waits in ambush for ... the surrounding habitat consists of lowland mixed with semi-deciduous monsoon tropical forests,” researchers said. ...

In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing species, a recent study has found. Having examined 1,207 tree species ...

The Ogun Amotekun Corps Commander, Brig-Gen. Alade Adedigba (retd.), disclosed that his men, numbering over 1,000, had been given the marching orders to move against bandits occupying forests in ...

Simply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Microsoft will pay to restore parts of Brazil’s Amazon and Atlantic forests in exchange for hundreds of ...

Eucalyptus plantations have contributed to massive wildfires in Portugal, and grass fires have spread everywhere from the Great Basin in the American West to tropical forests in Chile.

It is early winter when MacKenzie, an atmospheric scientist and director of Birmingham University Institute of Forest Research, leads me further into this small patch of woodland here in ...

Therefore, We used an in-situ sampling method to characterize changes in the dust retention of seven types of common lawn grasses and the influence of weather conditions and leaf surface ...

“It is critical that immediate and effective steps are taken to stop the rampant illegal exploitation of forest throughout South Sudan. Failure to do so is a sure desire for desert encroachment ...