If you've ever had an encounter with a fire ant, you know they can be a literal pain to deal with, just make sure you aren't ...

Saturday evening storms caused thousands to be without power and several trees down on homes and cars. A tree also fell onto ...

Located on the corner of Cornwall Avenue and West Laurel Street, the Bellingham District Energy Utility (BDEU) Energy Center taps into Bellingham’s existing Puget Sound Energy Encogen Plant, ...

By Liz Kimbrough In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy divers carefully snip small branches of corals with gloved hands. Their voices ...

Worldwide, coastal areas are squeezed between a rising sea level on one end and human structures on the other. The distance between a sandy coastline and the first human structures averages less than ...

On top of that map, she projected ... coastline and determined plant diversity every hundred meters. She did the same along 12 transects in the states of Florida and Georgia.

For example: Maps generated by Climate Central show that as our climate has warmed due to heat-trapping carbon pollution, plant hardiness zones have shifted north toward higher latitudes and ...

The USDA bases its plant zone maps on average minimum temperature so people in each zone know which plants can best withstand their local weather. For example, a tropical plant that needs 40 ...

Knowing when to plant in specific hardiness zones is important to maximize the spring season's potential. A hardiness zone is a geographic area with a similar average minimum temperature. The map ...

"The 2012 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map is the standard by which gardeners and growers can determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location. The map is based on the average annual ...