Some of the best-known medicines come from poisonous plants. The chemotherapy drug taxol comes from the yew tree, morphine ...

Back in 1964, a scientific decision ended up destroying one of the oldest living organisms ever discovered. Prometheus, a Great Basin bristlecone pine growing high on the slopes of Wheeler Peak in ...

A retired policeman is appealing to the council to spare a disused plot of land from new homes and instead turn it into a ...