Beautiful wall paintings celebrate unlikely plant heroes

Want to change food policy? Frame it as a public health issue

Fruit foraging zone to be planted in the heart of the city

With debt crisis looming, the GOP takes aim at environmental regs

After centuries of distrust and disdain, mushrooms are having their moment. From sci-fi smash hits to drug trials, an emerging league of mycophiles are bringing fungi out of the shadows

Eric Ripert at Le Bernardin is the first chef in New York City to be cooking with Nature’s Fynd, which is not seafood at all, but a protein fermented from an extremophilic fungal microbe (Fusarium strain flavolapis or “yellow stone,” nicknamed Fy) discovered by NASA-funded scientists in an acidic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park.

Whalers from the 18th and 19th centuries are helping 21st Century scientists on climate change.

Many hope that Lula will restore research funding and environmental protections in the country.