Aug. 1—Why it matters: A new state law that bans cities from limiting managed natural landscapes is a boost for homeowners and declining pollinator populations. Increasingly homeowners and apartment ...

American residential landscapes of the last 50 years typically use evergreen shrubs planted against the foundation of the house surrounded by manicured lawn. These landscapes are often environmentally ...

If we think of our technological landscape in terms of natural landscapes, many truths come to light. In the searing heat of the Sonoran Desert, for example, coyotes weave in and out of the scrub.

This transcript was created by a computer and edited by a volunteer. Dave Miller: From the Gert Boyle Studio at OPB, this is Think Out Loud. I’m Dave Miller. Ecological restoration projects say ...

Increasingly homeowners and apartment and commercial developers are embracing landscapes that consist less of carpets of mowed sod grass and more on native grasses and wildflowers. While many cities ...

Orange lava shooting up from a volcanic vent in the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland, and mountaintop shadows cast on a glacier in Yukon, Canada are among the winning subjects of the second annual Natural ...

You hear people talking about planning their landscapes toward a "more natural look." Too often, however, it ends up with native plants set into unnatural designs that don't look right for our part of ...

Small farms with natural landscape features such as shade trees, hedgerows and tracts of intact forest provide a refuge for some tropical bird populations, according to an 18-year study in Costa Rica.

Bats play a crucial role in tropical regions as pollinators, seed dispersers and agricultural pest controllers. But they are exposed to a wide range of threats, pollution among them. Two recent papers ...