While studying the impact of lightning on rainforests in Panama, a team of researchers discovered that one species of tree ...

Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

On average, each lightning hit destroyed over 2.4 tons (2 metric tons) of adjacent tree biomass and approximately 80 percent of the lianas (parasitic vines) that plagued the tonka bean canopy. As per ...

An estimated 1.6 million kilograms of bananas have been damaged or destroyed in NSW because of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

Starting my week-long road trip through Tropical North Queensland on a weekend was not by chance. I’ve been known to shift ...

Growing ordinary apples and strawberries in your garden is satisfying, but there's something particularly exciting about harvesting exotic fruits that your neighbors have never seen. Contrary to ...

The Hope and Anchor Pub on Jacobs Wells Road has a tropical beer garden that can seat around 80 people - and it often hosts ...

For one, the U.S. climate limits the production of some staples of the U.S. diet, such as coffee, cocoa and tropical fruits .

Kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects humanity and all life from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays.

The devastating impact of Fusarium wilt was historically seen in the 1950s when the Gros Michel banana variety, once the ...

Spring is the best time to plant many bulbs for summer and fall flowers. Plant these flower bulbs in spring for many months ...

Scientists used CRISPR gene editing to create a banana that stays yellow longer, reducing food waste and extending shelf life ...