No doubt you've seen your share of hollies this month — in wreaths and boughs or perhaps on holiday cards and catalog covers. But are they growing in your garden? There are hundreds of holly species and hybrids hailing from China, Japan, South America, Europe and North Africa, and more than ...

MARQUETTE — The holiday season means millions of people are decorating, buying lights and sharing new gifts like televisions, computers, or other electronic gadgets.  With that comes the need to retire the old gadgets. But where do they go? Finding the best option for getting rid of ...

NAIVASHA, Kenya — When Dickson Ngome first leased his farm at Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley in 2008, it was over 1.2 miles from shore. The farm was on 1.5 acres of fertile land where he grew vegetables to sell at local markets. At the time, the lake was receding and people were ...

MARQUETTE – Can tiny pieces of moss become crime-busters? Yes, according to a new study examining how law enforcement agencies, forensic teams and botanists have used moss to solve murders, track missing people, calculate how long ago someone died and – in a notorious western Michigan ...

Past the dimmed and cracked corners of the memories in my mind’s eye, I can see those week-before-Christmas days of my very young boyhood. Even in those early times, we were being indoctrinated and transformed from innocent and curious toddlers into ravenous post-war American ...

MARQUETTE — Have you ever submitted a report to the Midwest Invasive Species Information Network and questioned whether anyone would see it? Maybe you spent a semester slogging through rivers or fields to catalog species and habitat and wondered why. If so, the upcoming NotMISpecies webinars ...