Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, we visited with thousands of gardeners and aspiring gardeners at the Central Ohio Home & Garden Show and answered ...

Mums are famously tough fall flowers, but frost tolerance isn't a one-size-fits-all situation. Plant varieties and root establishment play a big factor, while gardeners' speed to protect these flowers ...

The cold winter months are the most difficult time of year for many animal species. To cope with the challenges of falling temperatures and a lack of food, some of them undergo a period of dormancy.

The climate is warming overall, but our cold spells seem worse than ever. That’s because a warming Arctic alters the jet stream that used to protect us from Arctic blasts, which now spill farther into ...

Garter snake hibernaculum at Pixley dam near Cokeville Meadows NWR, Wyo., (left) and a small-mouthed salamander (right). A cross section of wood showing carpenter bee tunnels and bee bread, a ...

Snow and cold temperatures rarely kill plants native to Ohio. Most insects survive cold winters by producing an antifreeze-like chemical or entering diapause. Recently, we visited with thousands of ...