Tag: plants
What the extreme fire seasons of 1910 and 2020 – and...
Kyra Clark-Wolf, University of Colorado Boulder and Philip Higuera, University of Montana
Strong winds blew across mountain slopes after...
When Greenland was green: Ancient soil from beneath a mile of...
Paul Bierman, University of Vermont and Tammy Rittenour, Utah State University
About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland...
How do spices get their flavor?
Beronda L. Montgomery, Grinnell College
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages....
Colonialism has shaped scientific plant collections around the world – here’s...
Daniel Park, Purdue University
Some of the world’s most popular museums are natural history collections: Think of dinosaur fossils,...
A shortage of native seeds is slowing land restoration across the...
Julia Kuzovkina, University of Connecticut and John Campanelli, University of Connecticut
Spring is planting time for home gardeners, landscapers...
Once the Callery pear tree was landscapers’ favorite – now states...
Ryan W. McEwan, University of Dayton
When people think of spring, they often picture flowers and trees blooming. And...
By fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond, we showed how old...
Tara K. Miller, Boston University; Abe Miller-Rushing, National Park Service, and Richard B. Primack, Boston University
Henry David Thoreau,...
From watering via ice cubes to spritzing with hydrogen peroxide –...
Nick Goltz, University of Connecticut
The internet is full of advice on just about everything, including plant care.
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
