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The popularity of rural cemeteries spurred the development of the first city parks. Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images

Symbolism of cemetery plants: How flowers, trees and other botanical motifs...

Shelley Mitchell, Oklahoma State University If you visit a cemetery, look closely and you’ll likely notice many flowering plants...

California plan to ban most plants within 5 feet of homes...

Max Moritz, University of California, Santa Barbara and Luca Carmignani, San Diego State University One of the most striking...

Why do trees need sunlight? An environmental scientist explains photosynthesis

Rebekah Stein, Quinnipiac University Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If...

Climate change is shifting the zones where plants grow – here’s...

Matt Kasson, West Virginia University With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the...

What is dirt? There’s a whole wriggling world alive in the...

Brian Darby, University of North Dakota Curious Kids is a series for children of all...

What is dirt? There’s a whole wriggling world alive in the...

Brian Darby, University of North Dakota Curious Kids is a series for children of all...

Flowers grown floating on polluted waterways can help clean up nutrient...

Jazmin Locke-Rodriguez, Florida International University and Krishnaswamy Jayachandran, Florida International University Flowers grown on inexpensive floating platforms can help...

Amid growing legalization, cannabis in culture and politics is the focus...

Hillary Jeanne Haldane, Quinnipiac University Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S....

EXPLORING NATURE

Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...

Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma