It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants feed upon. What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological ...

Spruce trees that experienced long-term droughts were more resistant to future ones, while pines acclimatized to wet periods were more vulnerable.

"In 1978, when I moved to this property, it already had six trees, each approximately 40 to 50 feet tall," writes columnist Tom Karwin. "They could have been in place since 1936, when the original ...