Joe Biden has become the first current U.S. president to set foot in the Amazon rainforest. He arrived Sunday for a brief ...

Matthew Fleming is the lead horticulturist for tropical plants at the Smithsonian Gardens in Suitland ... Too much fruit saps a tree’s energy and leaves you with a lot of puny lemons instead of a few ...

The world's warming tropical wetlands are releasing more methane than ever before, research shows — an alarming sign that the ...

An emission inventory, usually prepared for a particular year, quantifies emissions from different sources for a city or ...

The Congo, Southeast Asia, and the Amazon and southern Brazil contributed the most to the spike in the tropics, according to researchers ...

Nothing conjures up the feeling of the tropics like giant, lush-leaved plants, but many of us have to buy them every year and treat them as annuals.

If you are seeking snow-resilient flowers or wondering how to plant a winter container, it is best to avoid pelargoniums at ...

The Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden is a spectacular 30-acre garden with fountains, children's area, and tropical garden.

Ten years ago, a mysterious new disease was found sweeping through Hawaii’s native ‘ohi‘a forests, killing off the foundation ...

The scientific name of the coconut is Cocos nucifera. This specific epithet, “nucifera,” means “nut-bearing” in Latin, aptly ...

Six weeks after Tropical Storm Helene wreaked havoc on areas of Western North Carolina, the system — which serves Buncombe ...