Biologist accused of destroying plants
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To prosecutors, Robert "Roy" van de Hoek is a vandal with pruning shears. To supporters of native California shrubs and trees, he's a martyr.
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A woman has been indicted on charges alleging she had three large trees up to a century old cut down on sensitive federal land near Lake Tahoe to improve her view, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Many homes and gardens play host to an increasing number of hazardous plants, and children are most often at risk.
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Michael Jackson&#39;s attorney railed against prosecutors, calling the child molestation case against the entertainer &quot;garden variety,&quot; court documents revealed.
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Her former University of Pittsburgh professor described her as &quot;bright, bubbly and a very good biologist.&quot;. Government officials in Kenya, however, vilified her
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To prosecutors, Robert "Roy" van de Hoek is a vandal with pruning shears. To supporters of native California shrubs and trees, he's a martyr. Once again, he's in court.
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A Peruvian archaeologist is hurling allegations of plagiarism and intellectual plunder at American colleagues over a barren desert landscape where a mysterious culture built pyramids nearly 5,000 years ago.
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Two senators who strongly support human embryonic stem cell research lashed out yesterday at the scientist who recently reported the creation of those cells by a method that does not require the destruction of embryos, saying the scientist and his company have harmed the struggling field by...
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Why didn&#39;t Bush outright prohibit the research, if he truly believed destroying embryos is killing? BY RAMESH PONNURU. Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor at the National Review.
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By Charles Sheehan, Chicago Tribune  Jan. 31--Chicago-area officials say the invasion of the emerald ash borer is threatening to chew up suburban forestry budgets, as well as trees.
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Orchid Cellmark, a Montgomery County-based laboratory that has analyzed DNA for such high-profile cases as the OJ Simpson trial and the JonBenet Ramsey murder, has fired an analyst for allegedly
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Red spruce trees in New England and upstate New York suffered severe damage last winter, University of Vermont researchers have found.
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An aggressive fungal disease known as soybean rust has been found on plants in Louisiana, the first US case, threatening a crop valued at $17.
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Saguaro National Park managers are trying to eliminate exotic plants that are threatening to crowd out native vegetation in the Sonoran Desert.
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The former owner of a property where more than 20 Great Dane carcasses were found earlier this month has been charged with animal cruelty.
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By HANNAH ZITNER  VANCOUVER (CP) - Three B.C. mayors are demanding the federal government help thousands of homeowners pay for removing mountain pine beetle-infested trees.
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An Olympic doping laboratory was charged Monday with destroying a sample that belonged to gold medalist cyclist Tyler Hamilton.