Hundreds of years before the arrival of the first Europeans, Indigenous farmers were growing crops like squash, corn and ...

Here is an index map of 20 major timber types in the United States as defined by the Society of American Foresters. Each forest type listed on the map is presented where it most frequently occurs ...

BACKGROUND: Recent studies have highlighted the deleterious role of high phosphate intake in hypertension by means of ...

With its cold climate, short growing season, and dense forests, Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known as a challenging place ...

Ancestral Menominee people in what’s now Michigan’s Upper Peninsula grew maize and other crops on large tracts of land despite harsh conditions.

Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute relates that one-room schoolhouses are a part of American agriculture ...

The Welikia Project, made by ecologists at the New York Botanical Garden, uncovers all the flora and fauna that thrived in ...

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The court battle demonstrates how cities and states are increasingly clashing over whether it’s legal to ban plastic. California, New York, and hundreds of municipalities in the U.S. ban or fine ...

The United States accounts for a quarter of the world’s coronavirus cases, and the death toll is more than 189,000. Open now: Gyms, personal-care businesses such as salons and barbershops ...