Melissa Balch stands in the entry to her Tacoma home on Aug. 9. She has cultivated her yard as an oasis, screening out the city. The palm tree preceded her ownership of the pueblo-style house. Peter ...

The bloom of the purple orchid tree, native to south China, growing inside the Garfield Park Conservatory on the southside of Indianapolis on Jan. 13. The Conservatory contains more than 10,000 square ...

Researchers have been baffled by tropical rainforest diversity for over a century; 650 different tree species can exist in an area covering two football fields, yet similar species never grow next to ...

Australia’s rainforests are now releasing more carbon than they absorb, as heat, drought, and storms push them past a tipping ...

Tropical forests could be approaching their temperature limit. While only a fraction of leaves are thought to be at imminent risk of dying, the wider ecosystem could be under threat if the worst case ...

Discs cut from leaves of five tropical dicotyledons were submerged in a small Puerto Rican stream and samples harvested bi-weekly to determine the nature and rate of decomposition. Discs of Buchenavia ...

Little is known of the bacterial community of tropical rainforest leaf litter and how it might differ from temperate forest leaf litter and from the soils underneath. We sampled leaf litter in a ...

‘The garden allows me to feel calm and at peace’ (Picture: Mercury Press) Sometimes, you want to feel like you’re not in the UK, without actually leaving the UK. And while driving down to the ...