To Pull a Thorn From the Side of the Planet
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Environmentally friendly flowers are a hard sell. After all, most people donât eat them.
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep.
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By Beth Velliquette, The Herald-Sun, Durham, N.C.  Jun.
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By Constance Loizos, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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Long used by farmers as a guard against grazing animals and erosion, a plant called jatropha is now being hailed as a potentially ideal source of biofuel.
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By Katherine Cromer Brock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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VALENTINE'S Day may be a day of romance, but it can also be a bleak day for the environment.   So this year residents in Sandwell are being urged to show their love for where they live by snapping up a bargain compost bin.
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GOLDEN, COLORADO -- Any high hopes of sustaining expeditions on the Moon, Mars or beyond will depend on getting &quot;down and dirty&quot; on those worlds -- in the form of using on-the-spot resources.
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SYDNEY, Australia - With the aroma of "overripe Camembert cheese on a bed of roadkill" a rare example of the world's largest flower burst into bloom Thursday in a Sydney hothouse.    Visitors to Sydney's Botanical Gardens have described the scent of the Titan Arum, also known as Amorphophallus titanum, as like a room full of smelly socks, fish rotting, wet carpet, or a rotten banana...
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By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Mar.
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You can learn something about a rock by looking at it. But what most geologists really want is to smack it with a hammer. That&#39;s just what planetary scientists will do July 4 when NASA&#39;s
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Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by climate catastrophes.
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Whether you've got a few minutes or a day to spare, here are the essential jobs for your plot this week   ERICACEOUS plants such as rhododendron, azalea and enkianthus  that have finished their flowering should receive a fertiliser boost to keep soil vibrant.
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Low maintenance topiaries in a menagerie of shapes can satisfy that urge to plant.
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By Hannah Stephenson  WARMER summers are prompting many gardeners to include a touch of the exotic in their planting - and there's nowhere better to start than palms and tree ferns.
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By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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It's an engineering marvel that underscores the importance of balancing humanity's needs against nature's purity.