Determined researchers have found East Asia’s tallest known tree in a secluded valley near one of Taiwan’s longest rivers. The team named the massive fir tree “Heaven Sword of the Da’an River” — a nod ...

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That urge to grab your pruners the moment temperatures rise is one of the most natural impulses in gardening, and one of the most destructive. Every March, well-meaning gardeners pick up their loppers ...

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Florida rang in the New Year under an Arctic chill — and the cold delivered one of the Sunshine State’s strangest spectacles: iguanas falling from the sky. A sharp cold snap sent temperatures plunging ...

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The winners of the Mangrove Photography Awards shed light on the ecologically valuable but highly threatened coastal ecosystems A juvenile blacktip reef shark swims in shallow waters by the mangroves ...

One of Unguja Island’s ancient baobab trees. Courtesy Wolfgang Alders Unguja Island, in Zanzibar, Tanzania, is part of the cultural region known as the Swahili Coast. The Swahili Coast stretches from ...