Since Tu Bishvat is considered the “Birthday for Trees,” a time when trees are to be judged regarding their fate for the coming year, I hope the following lessons, based on Jewish quotations about ...

Last year, I wrote a story about the importance and power of small acts of kindness during the holiday season in the San Antonio Express-News. Those reflections feel even more urgent today. I now feel ...

On Thursday, December 2, at 11 a.m., the Center City District and The Dow Chemical Company will join more than a dozen students from Philadelphia Academies, Inc.’s Environmental Academy, in ...

Ecologist Suzanne Simard says trees are "social creatures" that communicate with each other in remarkable ways — including warning each other of... Trees Talk To Each Other. 'Mother Tree' Ecologist ...

One of a plant lover’s greatest pleasures is discovering a species that thrives in a place where it has no business growing, at least according to accepted wisdom regarding that species’ growth ...