Native trees, such as oaks, have long held a special place in our culture and countryside. Now, researchers have shown that ...

New research from James Cook University has made the extraordinary discovery that epaulette sharks can reproduce and lay eggs ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

Blue tits rear more chicks in oak-rich UK woodlands, says University of Glasgow study, highlighting the importance of native ...

Christmas trees can take years to break down when thrown into landfill, but there are some more eco-friendly ways of ending the festivity. Christmas is officially over, which means taking down the ...

Did you start the new year with your Christmas tree still up? If so, you're in the majority. We asked Milwaukee Journal Sentinel readers to tell us when they put up and take down their Christmas trees ...

While you don’t have to water them often as during summer, your trees do benefit from watering during the winter months. They may be dormant, but they can actually dry out from cold, dry weather and ...

Plant reproduction is highly complex and variable across the kingdom. The emergence of sexual reproduction has contributed to increase plant genetic diversity and enabled the colonisation of new ...

Estrella Luna-Diez receives funding from UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Anne-Marie Culhane receives funding from UKRI and the NERC. Bruno Barcante ...

“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” St. Basil I don’t think that the “good ...

If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need to crawl inside and die in order for the fruit to grow. But are there ...

How Do Subsea Trees Work? A subsea Christmas tree is the pressure-containing valve assembly mounted on a subsea wellhead that controls, monitors, and safeguards flow from (or injection into) a subsea ...