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The yearly south-to-north wave of spring green may begin weeks earlier due to continually warming temperatures. ->

Ten percent of the cooking and eating facilities at migrant worker camps in North Carolina failed to comply with established regulations. ->

For new gardeners, it can be difficult to gauge if you're watering your plants too much or too little (chances are, it's the former). Wouldn't it be wonderful if your plants could just tell you? Botanicalls Kits helps plants communicate with their human caretakers -- on Twitter no less. When your b...

Food is usually abundant in a tropical survival situation. In addition to animal food, you will have to supplement your diet with edible plants. The best places to forage are the banks of streams and rivers. Wherever the sun penetrates the jungle, there will be a mass of vegetation but riverbanks m...

It's often said that the last thing you need to worry about when in a survival situation is what you're going to eat. The human body is highly resilient, and can go without food for longer than you think. Shelter and water, on the other hand, are pretty much non-negotiable in order to survive. Howe...

When trees were wiped out by a pest, death from cardiovascular disease and lower respiratory disease jumped significantly. ->

The first month of 2013 is already a disaster for many farmers. Last week, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack declared 507 counties in 14 states natural disasters due to the ongoing drought. ->