For the first time, a plant specimen has been cryopreserved and placed into the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s Frozen Zoo, a step scientists believe could help the endangered scrub oak species ...

The scrub oaks were leafed out and blooming. The black locusts were not only sprouting leaves, but also starting to bloom! Had I taken my own advice, and waited to bring out the tomatoes until after ...

Grand Forks' first Christmas tree was not a lofty pine. No, indeed. The first Christmas tree was a scrub oak propped up in the little Methodist Church in 1877, according to Herald files. The tree was ...

On a recent late autumn day, visitors came to Hopeville Pond State Park in Griswold for different reasons. Some were walking their dogs under the shade of giant white pines as a brisk wind swayed the ...

For a Yankee in the South, everything about the environment scares you off. Heat. Humidity. Flying termite season (seriously, it’s a thing). But this cold-and-snow-loving Northerner braved the bugs ...

Re: “California summit on wildfires top priority” (Letters to the editor, Nov. 20): Letter-writer Mr. Miller needs to look at the environments where California’s wildfires are taking place. Old-growth ...