Technically, the coconut is not a true nut. Although kukui nut is edible, it can create serious stomach issues when too many ...

Native to Mexico and Central America, poinsettias have become America’s top-selling holiday plant. Though spectacular in ...

The belief that poinsettias are poisonous is just one of many myths and misconceptions about this most popular of holiday ...

Plants help mitigate the effects of climate change in air and water by removing pollutants and sequestering carbon.

The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could ...

The Amazon rainforest is slowly transitioning to a new, hotter climate with more frequent and intense droughts—conditions ...

The Golden State's upper half is a foodie's paradise, and these restaurants are especially iconic due to their food, ...

Death Valley National Park has experienced so much record-breaking rainfall this season that an ancient lake has reappeared.

Known as the “hypertropics,” this climate is defined by hot drought conditions—and hasn’t been seen on Earth for tens of ...

Poinsettias are one of the most popular winter plants, being synonymous with the holiday season. The bright section of the plant is a modified leaf, known as a bract, with the yellow center of the ...

It’s a tragedy of the space-time continuum, really, that such days are banished to the past. But all is not lost. The magic ...

New research shows that crops are far more vulnerable when too much rainfall originates from land rather than the ocean. Land ...