Texas is known for a climate that can be hot, dry, and humid, but our lineup of plants has no trouble growing, and even ...

Rainfall has benefitted many crops statewide, but the moisture also serves as a catalyst for insects and pests.

One of the hardest-hit areas by the ongoing drought is Hays County, just southwest of Austin, where it will be a real struggle to keep the water flowing in the decades ahead according to experts.

The United States has, for 70 years, been fighting a continuous aerial war against the New World screwworm, a parasite that eats animals alive: cow, pig, deer, dog, even human. (Its scientific ...

Most of the domestic crop is grown in hot, dry regions such as California, Texas and Florida ... screened 68 varieties of wild spinach from the region where the plant originated -- Uzbekistan ...

Layne Kennedy Come September in northern Minnesota, on lakes on the Ojibwa lands, harvesters, two per canoe, pole through thick clusters of wild rice plants growing along the marshy shores.

If there were an official menu for Father's Day — a holiday that sits toward the beginning of Maine's brief but glorious grilling season — it'd surely be loaded with standard, meaty dad favorites like ...

Experience the energy and celebration at the AIDS LifeCycle Finish Line Festival this weekend! Witness the end of an ...

Texas is littered with unintended, and sometimes intended, invasive species. Fireants, wild pigs, mimosa trees, giant salvinia and in some places white bass have all found their way into the ...

Grist reports that climate change is loading rice—the beloved grain that feeds more than half of the world's ...

If you want to make diet choices that help the planet, the most common and effective advice is to eat fewer animals and more ...

In landlocked Arizona, where the Colorado River crisis has put water use under a microscope, a new inland desert fish farm is growing barramundi — a tropical species native to Australia.