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Meet Cicuta douglasii, better known as Western Water Hemlock. While it’s not particularly scary looking, the United States ...

When researchers completed a national study of hazardous forever chemicals recently, they found that a South Carolina river ...

China has pulled back its rare earths exports, which are vital to everyday technologies and American defense. But the U.S. has its own secret stash.

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"Flowers are the music of the ground from earth’s lips spoken without sound" is a famous quote by Edwin Curran, which is a ...

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Warming breaks climate records The report’s findings are striking. Over the past decade, Earth’s surface averaged 1.24°C (2.23°F) warmer than it was in the late 1800s, and 1.22°C (2.19°F) of that ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – With summer right around the corner, a toxic springtime plant is nearing its peak bloom. It may look harmless, but Missouri officials warn: Mow it now before it spreads.

The study, titled “Drugs from poisonous plants: Ethnopharmacological relevance to modern perspectives,” was published in Elsevier’s journal Toxicon: X in March 2025.

Hemp plant extract, CBD, shows great promise as a natural insecticide against mosquitoes by effectively killing all mosquito larvae species.