One of the loveliest spring-blooming trees on our property is the serviceberry, Amelanchier x grandiflora. It is a cultivar ...

The answer is in your yard. Watch closely for the smallest hints, record what you find and advance the cause of science.

Bradford pear trees are brittle trees that break easily. They're also invasive in many areas, so skip this flowering tree and ...

Serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.) begins spring with a show of white flowers. As the flowers fade they are replaced by dark purple to red berry-like fruit called pomes. These are beloved by birds and ...

Perhaps one of the most favored hobbies of gardeners, wildlife lovers and outdoor enthusiasts is to feed the birds. Setting out a bird feeder with seed or suet cakes is ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has now been described. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin ...

PROSPECT PARK — FOUR MONTHS AFTER A 2-ALARM FIRE coursed through two-acres of Prospect Park’s woodland Ravine, Brooklyn’s last remaining upland forest, Prospect Park Alliance has kicked off ...

If we lived in an ordinary time—time here being understood in the long, unhurried sense of a geologic epoch—it would be nearly impossible to watch a species vanish. Such an event would occur ...