In Indonesian Borneo, forests survive not through law but belief, as fear of tree spirits spares strangler figs that sustain wildlife.

Every empire begins as astory told by strangers. In Elspeth Huxley’s Red Strangers, we watch that story written across the soil andsouls of Kenya.In thisextraordinary novel, Huxley plunges us into a ...

MacCubbin gives gardening advice for Central Florida about hyacinths, plants damaged by recent cold snap, Ti plants, bamboo, ...

India has formally submitted the nomination dossier of Jingkieng Jri and Lyu Chrai cultural landscape from Meghalaya, to UNESCO''s World Heritage Centre to consider listing these in its World Heritage ...

Old water oaks (Quercus nigra) are prone to developing decay in their trunks as they age. Because of this, their life expectancy is generally considered to be about 60 years — they have the shortest ...

Jhum farming in Khonoma, Nagaland, with alder pollarding enhances soil fertility, conserves forests, and aids carbon sequestration.

The Indigenous practice of agroforestry is enjoying a renaissance as the agricultural sector aims to decarbonise without ...

We see wetlands every single day: from the rivers that stream down villages, to the lakes where local communities and ...

It's not too early to get started nurturing some new trees. In fact, one fruit species does spectacularly when propagated indoors from cuttings.

I like maximising growing space for food crops, so in this example, I have a fig tree growing in a container with an undergrowth of banana mint! The mint helps as a companion by keeping the weeds and ...

“The Monarch” presided as the crowned sovereign of the 49-acre Old Growth Forest at Hartwick Pines State Park for years. It ...

Since the fig forms its fruit on shoots that start to grow in the spring, it can be radically pruned in the winter without affecting the following year’s two crops. The first crop starts to grow in ...