Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

The signs are already here: scarlet flashing on sumac shrubs, a reddish tinge in some kinds of maples, yellow leaves beginning to flutter down. The colors are telling us fall is here. Typically, the ...

The time when trees change color and then drop their leaves is a signpost of the year, a mark of the familiar cycle of the seasons. Early to mid-October is typically the height of the color in ...

A new family tree of the plant genus Solanum helps explain the striking diversity of their fruit color and size. This genus includes tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, and other economically important ...

One of my favorite things about sharing a love for gardening with my dad is our passing on of notes and lessons. I'll often turn to him for some advice and he likewise calls on me if something isn't ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Fruits of Solanum plants, a group in the nightshade family, are incredibly diverse, ranging from sizable red tomatoes and purple eggplants to the poisonous green berries on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. San Cristóbal volcano in Nicaragua. Pexels NASA scientists believe it may be possible to predict when a volcano will erupt by ...