Trees nearest the mines had higher concentrations of mercury in their rings. Passive air sampling confirmed the mercury ...

A booming market has specimen hunters tracking down rare new varieties of the ancient fruit By Jacob Roberts Photographs by Christie Hemm Klok David and Priscilla Burke's daughter Aoibheann with a ...

Nursery-bought fig plants are female and produce fruit without pollination. This is because the wasp needed to fertilize wild figs isn’t in this ecosystem. When fig trees are first planted ...

Banyans usually grow on hardwood hammocks. They are considered a keystone species, essential to the hardwood tropical ...

Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method for tracking toxic atmospheric mercury, a byproduct of gold mining in the Global South, according to a new study. Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method ...