A cold blast in South Florida is set to drive hard freezes deep into the orange groves and bringing a rare chance of Gulf ...

"A good rule of thumb is if you can fit a pencil into a crack, hole or opening, a mouse can get through it. The mice might not fit through a pencil hole, but their nose and mouth can quickly widen the ...

Good morning, As an alternative to new federal vaccine recommendations, the Itasca-based American Academy of Pediatrics released its own childhood vaccine schedule today ...

Seaweed bathing in Ireland, a trek through Africa’s first designated wilderness quiet park—we asked National Geographic staff ...

Seaweed bathing in Ireland, a trek through Africa’s first designated wilderness quiet park—we asked National Geographic staff ...

Florida is about to lose its "Sunshine State" credentials for a few days as a brutal Arctic front takes aim at the peninsula.

A recent history of guns and empire argues that early modern Europe marked the origins of a uniquely murderous era. But the world it describes is not so different from our own and making sense of its ...

It’s always useful to keep in mind that when we buy a certain variety of fruit tree we are the beneficiaries of clonal propagation; that is, the fruit we harvest is coming from canopy growth (called a ...

Lichens survive in a very wide range of habitats worldwide. Amazingly, more than 400 species can be found in Maryland.

As the nation’s third-leading producer of celery, Florida’s celery fields are valuable crops in the winter but susceptible to early blight disease, which can lead to costly losses.

If you don’t have space for a garden — or even if you do — a terrarium may be in your future. “Terrariums are an easy way to have some greenery,” said Brooke Edmunds, a horticulturist with the Oregon ...