The issue stems from fans promoting a drier atmosphere, leading to the discomfort of plants that desire ample moisture, like ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

Trees are more likely to be damaged by flooding during the growing season than during the dormant season, according to ...

Too little rain, too little water in the landscape—so simple, so serious. Even if the drought is obvious because freshwaters ...

Stanford researchers discovered how plant cells decide whether to form breathing pores based on size and neighbor signals.

During a particularly hot afternoon in June, my staff and I were walking a shaded trail at Garden in the Woods in Framingham ...

Transpiration is the evaporation of water from trees out and into the Earth's atmosphere. Leaf transpiration occurs through pores called stomata, and at a necessary "cost", displaces of much of ...

With all the recent rain, how do I know when garden and landscape plants need water? With the heat, some leaves look wilted.

Watering home landscape and garden plants properly is one of the most misunderstood tasks facing most gardeners today ...

Earth is hotter than it has been in 125,000 years, scientists say, and Las Vegas continues to break temperature records. The ...

Can you believe that some climatologists are blaming the corn farmers for some of our bad weather? Corn, like all plants and many mammals, sweats - only in plants it ...