It's that time of the season if you have a silver maple tree in your yard or in the neighborhood. The seeds are falling in great numbers this year. Now I know what it must be like to try to clean up ...

Caring for forests across Minnesota is one of the DNR's most fundamental missions, a task that requires a significant amount of resources and manpower. The job of reforestation is led by the DNR’s ...

John Badman is a 1982 graduate of SIU-Carbondale, with a major in cinema and photography and a minor in law enforcement administration of justice. He has worked at The Telegraph in Alton full-time for ...

Maple seeds sometimes are called helicopter seeds because of the way they fall to the ground. The seeds of dispute were everywhere. An 82-year-old Omaha man got so upset over his neighbor’s silver ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrew Dickerson, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) When wind or other ...

I was driving down a peaceful residential street the other day when I noticed the air ahead of me was a literal storm of fluttering objects. The sky above was full of them, too. A gust of wind had ...