Hedges and trees may actually reduce home exposure to radiant heat and flying embers, but they must be well maintained. Two ...

A strict 'Zone 0' rule against landscaping is risky. Well-maintained and watered vegetation could prevent the spread of fires ...

As long as humans are trading and traveling, plants and animals will be hitching lifts. The tools to track and mitigate the ...

Warmer winter temperatures have altered frost patterns and growing seasons across the United States, forcing botanical ...

Pine Hollow Arboretum is one of many botanical gardens rethinking their planting strategies as the climate warms. These ...

A plant is considered invasive if it is nonnative and its introduction is likely to harm the native environment or cause economic damage. They are generally fast-growing, spread readily (usually by ...

The approval ends years of uncertainty over the North West Shelf’s future, and marks one of the biggest political moves so ...

Symptoms of climate change include extreme heat, drought and extreme weather, all of which can significantly impact plant ...

A study involving more than 100 scientists has revealed how Australia's plants and animals responded to the devastating ...

In this study, we evaluated variation in vegetative and reproductive phenological events of four phylogenetically related plant species subjected to a seasonal environment. To this aim, we sampled 15 ...

Something you probably wouldn’t expect. But Hafner says the rainy, cold conditions will actually help plants get established. “For the homeowner, the rain is great. Get stuff in the ground ...

Plants that reproduce exclusively by self-pollination arise from populations with extremely low diversity to begin with. The research not only adds a facet to possible evolutionary strategies, but ...