Des Moines leaders, urban farmers and nonprofits are working to create a public orchard stocked with fruit-bearing trees like apple, peach and cherry.

Marius Floriancic runs quickly along a narrow, well-trodden path, heading deeper and deeper into the forest. It is a cool, ...

If you're wondering why squirrels seem to vastly outnumber raccoons—or why certain car brands dominate city streets—a team of ...

I am haunted by waters,” Norman MacLean wrote in “A River Runs Through It.”Perhaps mixed-media painter Meredith Nemirov is, ...

A recent study has revealed that the evolutionary relatedness of trees within an ecosystem plays a crucial role in shaping ...

Searching for the occurrences of a tree pattern query in an XML database is a core operation in XML query processing. Prior works demonstrate that holistic twig pattern matching algorithm is an ...

It probably looked a little peculiar. A grown man (me), slithering along the hillside on his belly, swimming through thistles ...

Investigating how the spatial pattern evolution of land types affects ecosystem service value (ESV) provides critical guidance for enhancing land resource management and ecological conservation in the ...

The change in the weather pattern will come on Tuesday, May 13, after high pressure and its associated dry air move out and a slow-moving storm creeps northward from the Southeast. (See the first ...

makes about the sixtieth victim of the Hatfield-McCoy feud that began forty-eight years ago as the result of one of the McCoy razor-back pigs swimming Tug River ... tied to a tree by the McCoys ...

We provide a look at dissolved nitrogen dynamics in a deeply weathered bedrock profile where tree roots extend meters below soil ... We provide evidence that these patterns are likely driven by ...