Poodle-dog bush thrives in Southern California mountains after wildfires. It's pretty but petting it can result in a severe ...

Scientists use fossil pollen to study ancient plant diversity and guide future conservation action strategies worldwide.

Street trees usually grow in appalling soils, have little space for their roots, are rarely watered and often get ...

Emerging data highlight how forest destruction and fragmentation can encourage transmission of zoonotic diseases.

The pong pong tree—also known as the “suicide tree”—may be a plot point in the season finale of the HBO series. But the plant was known to cause thousands of deaths a year in the past.

When the fur trade wiped out North America’s sea otters in the early 20th century, sea urchins—a favorite otter food— ...