How do plants adapt to drought and heat? New studies on plants of the Canary Islands show that adaptation is not determined by a single character but by the interaction of entire sets of characters.

Q. Most examples of unusual wildlife are animals. Which plants do you think are notable, or at least interesting, in some way? A. I have received this question before, the first time being from Joab ...

As gardeners, we want our plants to thrive. However, some plants succeed a little too well, to the detriment of other plants in our gardens and beyond. When such plants escape cultivation and ...

Norwegian nuclear project developer Norsk Kjernekraft and energy developer Ocean-Power are to cooperate on the development of concepts of floating nuclear power plants based on small modular reactors.

DULUTH — President Donald Trump is giving Minnesota’s taconite iron ore mines two more years to comply with a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency mandate to reduce their mercury emissions — a rule ...

TO have predicted, after the publication of Mr. Darwin's works on the Fertilisation of Orchids and the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, that the same writer would hereafter produce a still ...

I’d been bent at the hip like a cartoon detective, snooping around the trail’s edges, for over an hour. Covered in streaks of my own blood, courtesy of the recently satiated mosquitoes I swatted off ...

Plants are vastly intelligent in ways many people may not understand or appreciate. They have to be, since most of them move very little (if at all), so they require complex chemistry to communicate ...

AI data centers are driving a surge in new natural-gas power plants around the country. What does that mean for our clean-energy aspirations? The thousands of sprawling acres in rural northeast ...