Gardeners are being urged not to buy rhododendrons this spring, as conservationists warn it can spread tree diseases and harm native wildlife. The Woodland Trust said rhododendron ponticum is an ...

Ridding country of the shrub will take 250 years at the current rate of progress, despite posing ‘a mortal threat’ to Britain’s temperate rainforest, say campaigners It will take 250 years to ...

In 401 B.C., Xenophon of Athens, one of Socrates' students, marched off to back the wrong contender in a Persian civil war, and had to lead a retreat through hostile territory. He wrote a best-seller ...

Rhododendrons became popular during the Victorian period and it was widely planted as a garden ornamental. However, this invasive shrub spreads very quickly by prolific seeding and then layering of ...

Natural toxins in nectar and pollen can poison insects and affect their memory, behavior and reproductive success, researchers have found. Toxins in lupin pollen cause bumble bees to produce fewer ...

While not at all enamoured by the cultural reductionism that is the Wild Atlantic Way, and too old to have been a fan of the Wide Awake Club when it aired in the 1980s, I’m nonetheless enjoying Timmy ...