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For decades, scientists and conservationists have been using aboveground plant biodiversity as a metric for conserving ...
T he Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) project aims to sequence the genomes of all animals, fungi and plants found in Great Britain ...
The hemlock woolly adelgid has spread to the Port Douglas area on Lake Champlain, the northernmost location it's been found.
One of Sedona's several vortexes sits close above the road leading up to Sedona Airport. As a local saw goes, "There are only ...
And then I thought: ‘maybe there’s an app for that.’” iNaturalist is a free platform where users can upload “observations” ...
Hidden high in the White Mountains of eastern California, a gnarled, weathered tree quietly holds a staggering secret — it’s nearly 5,000 years old.
Through luck or (hopefully) genetics, this mighty tree has avoided contracting beech bark disease—a fatal fungal pathogen ...
Casuarina cunninghamiana River She-Oak is an evergreen tree that can be considered a master (or a mistress?) of illusion.  It ...
A notice went out in our subdivision on Yale Creek in Island Park that it was western spruce budworm season. This year, the ...