Brown and green plant material provide your compost bin with much-needed nutrients. However, certain plants can contaminate ...

Growing fava beans is like four crops in one: flavorful fresh pods, both fresh and dry beans, and –surprise! – delicious ...

Chytrid fungus is a scourge to global amphibian populations, but before it kills some frogs, it can produce symptoms that may ...

Eastern white pines are struggling and dying from a combination of problems that range from environmental to bugs to disease.

Ecological medicine is a new approach to health science that draws on a very old idea: connecting with each other, with ...

It’s like the stalwart soldier that can withstand all this stuff Mother Nature throws at it,” retired silviculturist Melissa Jenkins said. “Just its tenacity. It’s so inspiring.”  Like the tree, ...

In the heart of Siberia and the boreal north, a strange fungus consumes trees to create life-saving compounds. Chaga’s harsh existence in frozen climates gives it unmatched resilience and potency.

Harsh, eco-unfriendly synthetic herbicides are definitely one of those things that you shouldn't be using if you don't have to. Japanese researchers are thus now developing a green alternative, ...

Some 30 oak trees are being removed at Whitnall Park in Franklin after discovery of oak wilt, a fungus that kills trees and can spread. Mike De Sisti U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin discusses the impact of ...

FRANKLIN, Wis. — Milwaukee County Parks crews are removing a few dozen oak trees at Whitnall Park to stop the spread of a deadly fungus called oak wilt. According to the Wisconsin Department of ...

One of the world’s biggest orange juice processors is turning to carbon credits to help finance the Brazilian citrus industry’s costly move away from disease-laden orchards. Citrosuco and Itaú ...