Back when I only visited the countryside occasionally, I suffered from what botanists call “plant blindness,” described by Zoë Schlanger in her entertaining new book, The Light Eaters, as “the ...

During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...

Roger Milliken built one of the world’s leading textile and chemical manufacturers. But his environmental stewardship might ...

Are plants intelligent? Until recently, botanists were hesitant to ask that question, at least publicly. But that’s changing. In recent years researchers have learned more about how plants communicate ...

Shrubs were the focus of two keynote speakers at the recent 12th annual Cheyenne Habitat Hero Workshop. Co-authors Michael Guidi and Kevin Phillip Williams of the book “Shrouded in Light: ...