Now, researchers are in a race against time. They say most of the vast ‘ohi’a forests on Hawaii island will be gone in the next 20 years if what’s come to be known as Rapid ‘Ohi’a Death — ROD — isn’t ...

Nugget Falls Trail is a two-mile iconic trail in Alaska that leads to a waterfall and glacier view.

“I want him to be present as much as possible, to really receive the love, receive the flowers that he deserves,” Irving said ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

Icons of beauty, providers of sustenance, even symbols of divinity — blossoming plants have assumed a deep significance to ...