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Dear Neil: Regarding your recommendation of crape myrtles along streets, I do admit that under certain circumstances they can be spectacular, but they are not native to our state, and their seeds can ...

This aerial view reveals a remarkably well-preserved classical temple nestled within a quiet archaeological landscape. The symmetrical rows of Doric columns support a weathered stone roof standing ...

I moved across a frozen landscape. Fluffy snow under my feet disguised hidden ice beneath. In many spots it was impregnable so that even with micro-spikes affixed to my insulated winter hiking boots I ...

“I have often been a first or only African American in many of the science spaces that I’ve been in,” says Beronda L. Montgomery, “And I’ve thought about, ‘What does that mean, and what do I want that ...

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone loves to see beautiful, full, well-proportioned, valuable trees. We look at them for timber value and for their ...

A few weeks back, a “brands vs. trees” graphic caught my attention and I played along. Naming the logos came easily, and I quickly identified six out of six logos correctly. Then came the leaves and ...

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When I was a kid, we always had a ceiling-high red cedar as a Christmas tree. Although they are prickly trees that can cause severe itching, they had one feature I particularly enjoyed. The week after ...

One of the most memorable and meaningful Christmas Eve’s for me was the year I was abandoned at the public library. It was Monday, December 24, 1979. I was seven. The Baldwin Public Library is in the ...