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An important vote Friday will determine whether a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project will get the environmental green light ...
Save Notch Forest hasn't disappeared simply because the city backed away from logging in the area last year. The grassroots ...
“Unlike termites, carpenter ants do not eat wood,” writes Ashley Kulhanek and Curtis Young in an OSU post on ants and dead ...
All of Van de Riet's previous "Reef Wall" experiments have taken place in Florida, where the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of ...
Very few plants look as good to me next to a body of water as does weeping willow, Salix babylonica. Something about the ...
Vessels in a tree’s xylem transport water from the roots to the rest of the plant. Hardwood tree species tend to have large ...
At a bend in Zambia’s Kafue River, the bicolored waterberry trees resemble an avenue planted along a city boulevard. Their ...
New research finds that centuries-old oaks can dynamically rewire how they absorb nutrients—suggesting forests may be more ...
Scientists have discovered that a protein once thought to be just a cellular "courier" actually helps plants survive drought. This motor protein, myosin XI, plays a critical role in helping leaves ...
The destruction of tropical rainforests — seen in shocking images of huge wildfires, vast clearcuts, and dying ...
Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, reflects on creativity, innovation, and inclusive economic systems. You can subscribe to his newsletter here: ...