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A team co-led by a Purdue University researcher has found that groups of fungi influence global tree species in distinct ways ...

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Then Beurklian’s friend Rodney went on a mission to city hall, arguing that an eastern redbud, a species native to Toronto, ...

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The International Booker Prize winner’s intimate connection with nature comes through in Champi and the Fig Tree, her new ...

When ash dieback first arrived in Britain, in 2012, an emergency COBRA meeting was formed. The disease has since spread rampantly across the countryside, but there is still hope.