COCONUT CREEK, FL — Coconut Creek bluegrass fans don’t have far to go this weekend to listen their favorite music at Fern Forest Nature Center. The next free concert in the Dan Barrow Memorial ...

In her 40s, the self-described New Jersey housewife started building a women’s fiction empire, churning out dozens of popular books. By Alex Williams Fern Michaels, a mother of five in suburban New ...

Jacob S. Suissa receives funding from The National Science Foundation. He is affiliated with Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, and Let's Botanize Inc. There are few forms of the botanical world ...

“We’re all used to consuming music, but a sound installation is distinct in some key ways,” says Alex Inglizian. He’s the technical director and chief engineer at Experimental Sound Studio, a Chicago ...

I recently visited a beautiful preserve up north in Putnum County. Fern Cliff Nature Preserve, located near Greencastle, consists of 157 acres of deep, wooded ravines and steep, sandstone cliffs. The ...

PIERSON - Florida has long been famous for its oranges, but this northwest Volusia County town isn't known for citrus - it is the humble fern that rules the agricultural roost. Pierson is named after ...

I covered the evolution of ferns, their place in the general evolution of terrestrial plants and the curious nature of their reproductive cycle. To put it plainly, things got away from me and I didn’t ...

Looking very “unfernlike,” the American Climbing Fern has individual leaves that look something like a hand. About the size of a quarter, they can be easy to overlook. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON ...

It was an early April morning and Nature was playing tricks on us. The weather had been cold and raw for days, but then suddenly there was a break from the trend. The temperature soared into the high ...

This photo shows the pattern of vascular tissues in the leaf blade of an Interrupted Fern. Also shown are an unidentified species of ant and the smaller, dead needle of an Eastern Hemlock. Credit: ...

Florida has the widest variety of ferns in the continental U.S. (only Hawaii and Puerto Rico have more), and 123 of these are native to the state. Gardening with ferns is relatively easy given the ...

Fern Hollow Nature Center administrators are making strides with ongoing fundraising efforts for an expansion project at the nature preserve that sits on 33 acres in Sewickley Heights. Since 1997, ...