Welcome!! This is the first episode of Nature Quest, a monthly Short Wave segment that answers listener questions about your ...

Spring is well and truly in full force, and many of us will be flocking to woodlands to see beautiful bluebells blowing in ...

Known as a green or vegetative roof, the plants covering part of the Nature Center at Asbury Woods help the building and the ...

These Iconic Plants Are Suited To Our Climate, Making Them Perfectly At Home Here.

UC Davis professor Hugh Safford found the highest living tree in California on a recent hike through the High Sierra.

Just 12 miles north of San Francisco’s bustling streets, this ancient redwood sanctuary in Mill Valley feels like stepping ...

The animal kingdom gives us rainbows of color with butterflies and chameleons, and clownfish, but birds give us just as much ...

Discover 5 types of birds that are blue! Beyond blue jays, we dive into tree swallows, eastern bluebirds, and much more!

The North Hollywood weather station — which is closer to my residence than any of the other 273 such stations throughout ...

A nearby trail cam caught a black bear roaming through the woods two days in a row near Betsy Lake. Tahquamenon Falls shared ...

Skunk cabbage is the first native wildflower to emerge in Chicago’s woodlands in spring. Other ephemerals will follow, ...

In college, I brought guys into the forest at night because it was a place where I was less scared than they were. As a woman ...