A major breakthrough could help save the world’s bananas from a devastating disease. Scientists have discovered the exact ...

In tropical latitudes, a dry, hot climate prevails and this encourages a characteristic environment : the bush. Usually the land is barren and there is dust everywhere. Certain animal and plant ...

Scientists have pinpointed crucial genetic resistance to a fungal disease that threatens the global banana supply in a wild subspecies of the fruit. In a valuable step forward for banana breeding ...

Spekboom is everywhere, it’s all anyone talks about … what used to be an Angora goat farming town is now a spekboom town,” says field ecologist Rae Attridge. In the past two years, Nat Carbon, the ...

A more unusual sign that your indoor plants might be suffering from draft damage is dull leaf colorations. If once glossy ...

This past week’s cold temperatures definitely got low enough to damage the tropical and subtropical plants that make up our ...

Phosphorus is essential for plant growth and ecosystem productivity. In many natural forests, plants rely on soil microbes to ...

You've likely not heard of the term myrmecophily. Literally meaning ant love, it refers to ants' bonds with other organisms.

Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. This is especially true when it comes to watering houseplants. Even the most drought-tolerant succulent needs moisture—but too much water and your ...

On a bitterly cold winter morning inside Kyiv’s M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden, scientist Liudmyla Buyun checks a thermometer mounted against the glass wall of a greenhouse. She pauses, notes ...

FLURRIES AS WE GET YOU TO THE WEEKEND. STRAIGHT AHEAD. ALL RIGHT, TONY TIME, OF COURSE, RUNNING OUT TO GET YOUR HOME READY FOR THE COLD. SPECIFICALLY, PIPES, PLANTS AND POOLS. BIG CHILL COULD LEAD TO ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indoor plants provide a living pop of spring or summer color to a home — even in the dead of winter when snow covers the ground.