California firecracker (Dichelostemma ida-maia) is a bright red, uniquely shaped wildflower native to California and Oregon, ...

So often we discuss the design elements of common bushes, trees, annuals, and perennials. Usually these are items we find in ...

Blackcurrants are popular in Europe but are mostly unknown here still. It feels like a strange history that this fruit was ...

In 2021, the HMS Defender, a state-of-the-art Daring-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, found itself at the heart of a high-stakes geopolitical confrontation near Crimea. Commissioned in 2013, ...

Nine-year-old Kelsey Ferrigon, a pupil at St John’s Primary School in Spanish Town, Jamaica, was found dead inside a barrel ...

In 1974, The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was incorporated into the newly formed Gateway National Recreation Area. The remaining parcels of Jamaica Bay Park still operated by NYC Parks include the area ...

False asphodel, a flower that grows in the high-altitude wetlands of western North America, gets much of its nutrients from eating insects. Western false asphodel has pretty white flowers and ...

While seasonal flowers can be found all throughout the park in the ... Managed by Harvard University, Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain has over 15,000 plants to explore across 281 acres.

“I have friends who have found really cool ... —“all infused with the flower of the island,” she notes. “It’s really cute. It has the essence of Jamaica.” One special experience ...

We hypothesize that flower mites may use the electrostatic attraction between the mite and the hummingbird’s beak to aid transportation. Here a flower mite is attracted to an electrode charged ...

The endangered Delhi Sands flower-loving fly can only be found in the Colton dunes, but their behavior and legal protections make them a rare sight. Most of the year Delhi Sands flower-loving ...