For millennia, Indigenous knowledge holders have passed down lore to the next generation. Much lore describes the ...

I stepped onto the front porch and felt like someone was watching me. Sure enough, there on the wall by the screen door was a ...

"You know, it didn't stop raining until about a month ago, so it was great growing season, and all the apples are hanging on, ...

Bhitoni wakes before dawn to go foraging for baobab fruit, sometimes walking barefoot though hot, thorny landscapes with the ...

Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety to the family’s staple corn and millet diet. The 50-year-old B ...

Detectives found 21-year-old Javion Magee dead underneath a tree with the rope around his neck on Sept. 11 in Henderson, which is 40 miles (64.4 kilometers) northeast of Raleigh, according to a ...

Recently, on a sunny late afternoon, a couple friends and I were walking through Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. As we moved ...

The Wichita County Sheriff's Office says a man and woman were burglarizing a home on Horseshoe Lake Road early in the morning ...

The baobab tree is known as the "tree of life," and its fruit is feeding a growing global market for natural food and beauty ...

The black bean tree produces large quantities of seeds – but they are poisonous without proper treatment. Renae Grace 333/Shutterstock Walking plants These stories raise interesting questions ...

Like bunya pines, black bean trees (Castanospermum australe) have been an important food source for thousands of years. While the large seeds are toxic, they can be made edible. Here, we have ...