Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Beneath the forest canopy, or overstory, of towering trees is a second layer of vegetation known as the understory. It is composed of shrubs, saplings, ...

Although pollen has covered cars for weeks and allergy sufferers have been sneezing, we think of sex as being the realm of animals. But plant sex can be quite interesting, especially in species that ...

In a sweeping study of a huge swath of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, researchers documented that in many places, the sugar maple saplings that should be thriving following harvesting are instead ending ...