The annual carpet of dead leaves can be an important component in gardens. They can serve as root-protecting and insect-sheltering winter mulch or add to a robust compost mix.

What makes plants grow to a certain size? From the tiniest cells to whole leaves, roots, and stems, growth has to be ...

The forests of Indiana are a glory this time of year. Lumbering catalpa trees growing above Indianapolis homes are starting to fade into gold and the forests of Brown County have fallen into a vibrant ...

Asif, 46, was found unconscious and not breathing with severe facial burns on Oct. 17 at 3:52 p.m. by police in her Herricks home on Larch Drive, where she lived with her three children, officials ...

Deciding whether to rake leaves depends on your property type and gardening goals. Leaving leaves on the ground provides shelter for insects and recycles nutrients into the soil. Thick layers of wet ...

Fall foliage draws leaf peepers outdoors to glimpse the colors, and enthusiastic yard-tenders into the garden shed to reach for their rakes. Or worse, for their leaf blowers. Yes, they’re noisy, but ...

Kidman, 58, and Urban, 57, started dating in 2005 after meeting at an event in Los Angeles. They wed in June 2006 in his native Australia. In 2018, she said that Urban swept her off her feet when he ...

BURIEN, Wash. — When you’re 4 years old, learning to ride a bike can be scary. What if you can’t do it? What if someone laughs at you? What if you fall? David Rios knows how nervous some kids are when ...

Bands of yellow and orange aspen trees ripple across the slopes, flickering against the dark green of conifer forests. The display is dazzling, but leaves don’t change color just for decoration. The ...

Karen Palmer didn’t dream it, she lived it, except her experience — or at least the impetus of it — was a nightmare she writes about in her memoir “She’s Under Here.” In 1989, Palmer, her new husband ...

Children receive roughly 30 vaccine doses before age 18, doctors say. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at a Senate hearing on Thursday that children receive up to 92 ...

Autumn heralds the arrival of cooler weather, shorter days and colorful scenes across the United States as trees start to prepare for the colder months ahead. The vibrant foliage can be credited to ...