If you are looking to harvest more homegrown food in your garden, why not take a note from nature and grow like a forest? In the wild, plants grow in complimentary layers to maximize space and ...

Even a toddler knows that plants need water. It’s perhaps the first thing we learn about these green lifeforms. But how plants budget this resource varies considerably. The kapok trees of the Amazon ...

Soil stores large amounts of organic carbon, whose dynamic changes can cause huge impact on the global climate system. Forest succession is a long-term ecological process that can exert powerful ...

As the world grapples with the intertwined challenges of global forest degradation and climate change, traditional forest restoration approaches have shown critical shortcomings. These approaches, ...

Native soil fungi, in addition to native plants and trees, are both essential for restoring forests on islands like Palmyra ...

Probiotics, or "good bacteria," are often used to rebalance the human gut microbiome. A balanced gut means the good bacteria can control "bad" bacteria. New research at the Scripps Institution of ...

Growing a forest usually takes a lot of time — and space. In the 1970s, Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki introduced a new way ...

Growing a garden can take a toll on your soil, leading to nutrient deficiencies, soil compaction, erosion, and other problems. To avoid this, many gardeners till their beds or apply regular ...