For the first time, a plant specimen has been cryopreserved and placed into the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s Frozen Zoo, a step scientists believe could help the endangered scrub oak species ...

Grand Forks' first Christmas tree was not a lofty pine. No, indeed. The first Christmas tree was a scrub oak propped up in the little Methodist Church in 1877, according to Herald files. The tree was ...

For a Yankee in the South, everything about the environment scares you off. Heat. Humidity. Flying termite season (seriously, it’s a thing). But this cold-and-snow-loving Northerner braved the bugs ...

To save a few dozen remaining threatened scrub jays and hopefully many more in the future, Brevard County officials say more than 100,000 trees — including a popular half-century-old oak hammock that ...