With D.C. seeing more heat waves every year, climate change experts predict that by the 2050s the District is in store for 30 to 40 extreme heat days each year with temperatures cresting 95 degrees.

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Their role is under discussion by world leaders this week. Bromeliads, ferns, and orchids cover a kapok tree in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador. The region is home to stunning biodiversity ...

University students in Adam Schneider's plant taxonomy course conducted an experiment to identify a mysterious root found in ...

Scientists made fake leaves and dropped them in water tanks to observe how different shapes move as they sink.

Photo Credit: Reddit The photo showed contractors digging out the area where those roots — now cut and exposed — once spread out beneath the surface. The OP referred to Utah's law that permits ...

Chimpanzees don’t just drum on tree roots for fun — they do it in rhythm, and they may be using it to send messages through the forest. That’s what a team of scientists found after analysing more than ...

Chimpanzees don't just drum on tree roots for fun -- they do it in rhythm, and they may be using it to send messages through the forest. That's what a team of scientists found after analysing more ...

Kapok trees in the Virgin Islands attract local leaf-nosed fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis). (Photo Gail Karlsson) One morning at the Unitarian Fellowship meeting my friend Kim mentioned that the big ...

Because the puller’s serrated jaws can rip out the entire tree, roots and all, there is no need for additional stump grinding or chainsaw work, according to Ignite. The puller is built on a ...