When beekeepers introduced honeybees to a protected island, wild bees nearly vanished. Could removing the hives reverse the ...

Only six years old at the time, I was at first put off by these garish plants. Such strange and vibrant flowers seemed out of place among the respectable beans, peppers, spinach, and other ...

including Jordan’s endangered national flower, the black iris. (Discover the epic path that crosses this Middle Eastern kingdom.) Trekking Central Nepal’s Annapurna mountain range via the ...

Take a look at some of the flowers photographed by Craig Burrows and you might feel as if you’ve suddenly been transported into the alien world of Pandora from James Cameron’s Avatar.

Here are our favorite places to frolic through fields of flowers, from the Pacific Northwest to the Appalachian Mountains. Wildflowers carpet the fields and hills of the Carrizo Plains National ...

This flower sits 50 feet up on a cypress ... Houlihan’s studies of this moth, funded by the National Geographic Society, helped lead to his work on ghost orchids. This example may have rubbed ...

For decades, researchers from the Kaua’i-based National Tropical Botanical Garden ... It has vibrant yellow flowers, which shift to a purplish hue over time. Researchers believe it is pollinated ...

Eravikulam National Park, India — Beautiful, purplish-blue flowers that carpet the hillsides of southern India just once every 12 years are under threat of never blooming again. The flowering ...

Your local gardens serve as more than a mere showcase of beauty—it can be a sanctuary that offers a deeper connection to the natural world. More than just spaces of aesthetic beauty, public ...

This flower, the pyrethrum plant ... To this day, all Kenyan children learn about pyrethrum in school as part of the national curriculum, according to Immaculate Maina, who oversees Nakuru ...