Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: For more than three decades, scientists have explored ways to leverage certain metal-producing powers of hyperaccumulators, a family of more than 700 ...

A "breakthrough" discovery about the fern species Blechnum orientale could help to ease the rare earth element (REE) crisis and pave the way for a “green” extraction process for the metals. While the ...

Scientists have discovered a fern from South China that naturally forms tiny crystals containing rare earth elements (REEs). This breakthrough opens the door to a promising new way of "green mining" ...

In its six decades operating off the industrial edge of Charlestown’s New Rutherford Avenue, the giant Boston Sand & Gravel complex has never had a neighbor. Now, 705 apartments might go in on some ...

With their bristling leaves in hues of green, purple, and silver, ferns are a great landscaping choice for adding texture and foliage in your yard. There are so many varieties of ferns to pick from, ...

Indonesia’s largest environmental group reported that air quality around Surabaya’s Benowo waste-to-energy plant frequently exceeded World Health Organization safety limits, with pollution spreading ...

The Batang coal-fired power plant in Central Java, now legally permitted to use vast amounts of seawater for cooling, has raised alarms among experts over its impact on marine ecosystems and ...

After deciding to add a rock garden to the landscape, gardeners often find themselves searching for the perfect flowering plants to grow in gravelly soil or with gravel mulch. Not all plants will ...

The Oshkosh Garden Club's annual Spring Plant Sale will be from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 17. The sale will feature a variety of Wisconsin-hardy plants and a "gardener's rummage sale." Proceeds support ...

Biologists have create a web portal for the world's most charismatic plants, ferns. The Florida Museum of Natural History has partnered with 35 herbarium collections across the United States to create ...