"These plants had a much wider range in the past and were readily sharing DNA with one another," Naranjo said. But their habitat soon shrank. There were at least 17 ice ages during the Pleistocene ...

Helicopters will back at first light battling the Northland scrub fire that has destroyed about 20 hectares of vegetation ... fire behaved well yesterday due low wind and high humidity, which ...

Video / Fire and Emergency NZ Signs of recovery are growing from the ashes of Whangamarino Wetlands after a scrub fire burned through more than 1000ha of vegetation in October. The fire was first ...

Firefighters struggled to access a vegetation fire near Parikino that turned out to be an unnotified controlled burn-off. Firefighters are warning landowners to let them know about planned burn ...

The Tamil Nadu Health Department has issued an alert to district health officers as cases of scrub typhus continue to rise acro ...

HABITAT: The manzanita grows only on rocky ridges and outcrops in maritime chaparral or coastal scrub habitats in the East Bay hills, primarily on thin, low-nutrient soils composed of chert and shale ...