The monarch butterfly is an icon with enduring strength and tenacity while flying thousands of miles. Sadly, wildfires, land development, and greedy people are killing the Western monarch. When ...

Tropical plants in Florida, including the breadfruit tree and dracaena fragrans may be creeping north as winters warm.

Trekking across Malaysia, her adopted country, she found more than 150 unrecorded plant species. “She’s one of the greatest ...

The matador bug becomes even more alluring as it struts along leaves, looking ready to bust a move in true Saturday Night ...

When animals are faced with extinction, they have three options: move, adapt, or die. Every year, the western monarch ...

Pollinator plants can benefit insects and birds even in the winter, providing shelter, insulation, and food. Wait until ...

This important study shows that different forms and mixtures of cardenolide toxins in tropical milkweed, especially nitrogen- and sulfur-containing types, change how monarch caterpillars eat, grow, ...

I bought a hibiscus this past spring and have really enjoyed it. Did I misunderstand the salesperson who told me to plant it in the garden? For now, I am keeping it in my unheated garage, but I wonder ...

Climate change is transforming Sicily’s rolling hills into a tropical landscape. How it adapts could be a lesson for the rest of us. Natale Torre tends to bananas growing in a greenhouse. Torre owns ...

Editor’s note: The Courier Express, in collaboration with Lola M. Smith, MS, assistant teaching professor in biology at Penn State DuBois, is republishing a series of work completed by college ...