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Black Canyon City, Arizona

I-17 Mystery Christmas Tree

Every year, festive decorations appear on this juniper tree located in the median strip of a busy highway.
Even with wide-open spaces, staff are being careful to practice social distancing, and wipe down any shared surfaces.
botanical gardens

How America's Botanic Gardens Are Growing Without Visitors

Watering and weeding can't wait until the pandemic has passed.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 23, 2020
Green America estimates that over the next 10 years, their 2,500 registered climate victory gardens will have a massive greenhouse gas off-setting effect.
gardens

These 7 Companies Ship Unique Seeds for Your Quarantine Garden

Beat the rush by turning to small, local suppliers—and your neighbors.
Reina Gattuso April 22, 2020
Monticello’s 1,000-foot-long garden terrace served as both a source of food and an experimental laboratory.
museums

At Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Garden Is Still Growing

Restoring the grounds and its rare, heirloom crops recreated what was effectively the country's first seed bank.
Eric J. Wallace April 21, 2020
Charlottesville, Virginia

Monticello's Vegetable Garden and Fruitery

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.
Medieval manuscripts were illuminated with folium, and one bore the instructions for recreating the ink.
paintings

The Mystery of a Medieval Blue Ink Has Been Solved

Turns out it was hiding in plain sight by the side of a Portuguese road.
Isaac Schultz April 17, 2020
Warner Castle.
Rochester, New York

Warner Castle

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.
Tons of sargassum in Puerto Morelos, Mexico, seen here in 2019, present a distinct problem for the tourist industry.
underwater

The Sargasso Sea Is Plenty Wide, and It's Growing

What happens when you have too much of a good thing.
Dan Nosowitz April 14, 2020
Xmuch'haltún Botanical Garden
Campeche, Mexico

Xmuch'haltún Botanical Garden

The walls of a colonial-era fort encircle a small, tropical assortment of plant life.
Oh, nose! Cave bears' diet-limiting sinuses may have been what spelled doom for the Ice Age beasts.
caves

Why Europe's Cave Bears Were—and Weren't—Made for Hunkering Down

Their big sinuses were both an evolutionary boon and bust.
Isaac Schultz April 3, 2020
Ancient trees like these, in the University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, helped date the massive eruption on Thera.
ruins

The Date of an Ancient Mediterranean Eruption Is Hidden in Dead Trees

Specifically, in the wood of a royal Phrygian tomb.
Isaac Schultz April 1, 2020
A fisherman searches for a catch in his athapum.
Manipur, India

Loktak Lake

The largest freshwater lake in northeast India is also the only floating national park in the world.
São Miguel, Portugal

Gorreana Tea Plantation

Europe's oldest still-operational tea farm also boasts a spectacular view.
Elfin Oak
London, England

Elfin Oak

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.
Flamingoweiher
Mainz, Germany

Stadtpark Mainz

Along the banks of the River Rhine lies a park that seems unassuming, but beneath the surface lies a long and fascinating history.
Ali frets for the future of the age-old olive tree.
trees

In Palestine, Protecting One of the World's Oldest Olive Trees Is a 24/7 Job

Salah Abu Ali often sleeps beneath his ancient charge.
Jason Ruffin March 6, 2020
Coast redwoods in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, California.
forests

Can Redwoods Save the World?

Not by themselves, but the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive is out to show how they can help.
Elizabeth Svoboda March 5, 2020
<em>Cyanea kuhihewa</em>, rediscovered.
botanical gardens

In Kaua‘i, Botanists Rediscover an Extinct Plant Once Mistaken for Another Extinct Plant

Just another day in Hawaiian conservation.
Sabrina Imbler February 28, 2020