If you live in a big, brightly lit city and you feel like allergy season just never ends, you might be right: New research shows that light pollution prompts plants to shed pollen longer, increases the growth of notoriously allergenic ragweed and makes our bodies more prone to allergic reactions, from runny noses to asthma….
Peter H. Raven, a renowned botanist and author who remade the Missouri Botanical Garden into a premier research institution and became one of science’s most influential voices on threats posed by climate change, deforestation, overpopulation and unchecked development, died on Saturday in St. Louis. He was 89. His death, in a hospital, was from congestive…
My first view of the Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden in Cape Town was dramatic, to say the least. Before me spread a wide crescent bed of tall blue agapanthus with a great lawn behind it, and then the land swooped up a mountainside with trees sheltering beds of plants and freshwater streams. Beyond, a deep…
