With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, where displays are overstocked with eye-catching seed ...

On Nov. 15, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a revised version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map. This map is what home gardeners, as well as professional growers, use to determine which ...

Question: My husband bought a few plants at a nursery recently. There was a tag describing the USDA Climate Zone. I live in Sonoma 9a, but I saw other zones mentioned such as 9b and 10. There was also ...

Kids today are understandably anxious about climate change. One survey published last year found that 59% of children and young adults were very or extremely worried about the environment, with more ...

Millions of U.S. children attend schools located in cities disproportionately threatened by the impact of climate change, researchers recently warned. Climate change is making heat waves more frequent ...