This essay is a follow up on the photograph published in the Jan. 16 Commonwealth (pictured above) that showed duckweed ...

New research shows that a fossilized plant from the Green River Formation is even stranger than scientists originally thought ...

Koochiching County officials added noxious weeds to the annual Minnesota Agricultural Department commissioner’s order. The commissioner’s order lists three weeds for eradication, nine for control, two ...

All trees need sunlight to grow, but lucky for home dwellers, some trees do well in low-lighting conditions, making them ...

Its colorful, robust foliage arguably makes the Ficus elastica 'Shivereana' one of the best types of rubber plants to grow at ...

No matter the season, there's always something going on at Giant City State Park! This weekend, there are multiple events ...

According to USA Today, police described the suspect as an employee at the facility who had worked for several hours on Tuesday before he allegedly opened fire and fled the scene. There is no clear ...

Cornell University marine ecologists and computer scientists have shown that grazing by sea snails and other marine herbivores has a big impact on the scale of seagrass wasting disease — contributing ...

A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to ...

The XPRIZE Rainforest is an international competition to identify the best possible biodiversity in an area of 100 hectares, i.e. 1 million square metres (10 km x 10 km) ... in three days and without ...

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...