In 1912, Japan sent Washington D.C. 3,000 cherry trees as a gift. Two years ago, it sent 250 more, one for every year of the ...

Nothing says spring in Washington DC quite like cherry blossom season! Every year, the thousands of pink and white blossoms bloom across the city, drawing millions of visitors who come to see the ...

Imagine a healthy forest, home to a variety of species: Birds are flitting between tree branches, salamanders are sliding through leaf litter, and wolves are tracking the scent of deer through the ...

Springtime in Washington, D.C. means one thing: it’s cherry blossom season. D.C. celebrates this annual tradition with the National Cherry Blossom Festival, a celebration that draws more than 700,000 ...

Thanks to the Elkins Tree Board and City Councilwoman Nanci Bross-Fregonara, we will offer another series of three free Tree Talks at Kump Education Center. These lectures have been sponsored by ...

From glossy black bears and quill-covered porcupines to elegant red-tailed hawks and stripy chipmunks, Oregon is home to some ...

The peak bloom date is "defined as the period when 70% of the Yoshino Cherry blossoms are open," according to the park ...

Advocates say federal protections under the Endangered Species Act for species like the monarch and hellbender are overdue.

Delaware's "Big Night" is an annual spring event where amphibians, mainly spotted salamanders, migrate to vernal pools to breed. This migration is triggered by warm, rainy nights in late winter or ...

The other day, I scrolled through a Facebook thread addressing proposed rezoning and development on the northwest corner of East University and North College/147. Most people commenting addressed conc ...

The fossils would later travel all over the world much like the animal did in life, before being stuffed in storage and ...

The ancient marine amphibians Erythrobatrachus (foreground) swimming along the coast of what is now far norther Western Australia 250 million years ago.Pollyanna von Knorring (Swedish Museum of ...