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A lot of the familiar sounds of fall involve plants - wind rustling leaves or whistling through tall grasses. What would it sound like if the plants, though, could raise their own voices? (SOUNDBITE ...

Planting on any sloped land is more difficult than flat-ground planting because: 1.) it’s harder to walk and work on a slope; and 2.) the soil is usually poor and thin from erosion. Toughest of all is ...

Working with South African daisies, Colombian magnolias and Philippine coffee trees, botanists the world over are discovering the secrets to bringing extremely rare and threatened plants back from the ...