If you're looking to add color and texture to your garden without constant watering, few plants deliver like greater quaking grass (Briza maxima). With its wheat-like seedheads that swirl in the ...

Dugongs spend most of their time grazing in shallow tropical waters. These seagrass meadows are essential for their survival. This Psychological Term Explains How GOP Officials Justify Harm Former TV ...

After the discovery of the Americas in the 15th century, Europeans brought back many types of plants that gardeners take for granted today, including potatoes, sunflowers, and tomatoes. Pampas grass ...

Yew trees’ bright, juicy red berries are poisonous to us, but birds can eat them happily, their digestive tract being unable to break down the coating of the toxic seeds inside — a perfect ploy for th ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) During a day at the beach, it's common to see people walking up and down the shore collecting seashells. As a paleontologist and marine ecologist, we look at shells a bit ...

Covered in lush fur, the thickest in the animal kingdom, sea otters can live their entire lives in the ocean, feeding heavily upon seafloor animals such as shellfish and crustaceans. Eelgrass meadows ...

Editor’s note: Already praised by writers such as Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert, “Sea of Grass” is about the “ecological marvel” of the North American prairie. Former Star Tribune journalists ...

Manatee County commissioners greenlit the purchase with $420,000 from the county’s voter-approved conservation fund. Conservationists are celebrating the protection of 13 acres of land along the ...

Seagrass ecosystems are of vital ecological, social, and economic significance in the Western Pacific, supporting food security, livelihoods, and coastal protection. Yet across Southeast Asia, they ...

The prairie might just be the most underappreciated landscape in the United States. Beginning in the early 1800s, the majority of these grasslands were converted into big industrial farms. Now, some ...