While urbanization has restricted and fragmented the natural ecosystems, it also creates new and diverse environmental ...

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The new bed of shrubs already supporting other wildlife: more bees, a steady stream of butterflies, and on one particularly remarkable day so many monarchs that the entire patch shimmered.

Is an organism a sum of its parts, or should they be considered as a whole? New research on ferns shows how the way scientists understand evolution affects how they study life.

What are native plants? Either you love them, hate them or don’t really know what they are. If you fall into the latter ...