USA TODAY staff on the value of reading banned books like "The Bluest Eye," "Gender Queer" and "Looking for Alaska." ...

In a lab at the University of Miami, there are tanks of knobby, tan-colored corals from Florida, Honduras and the Cayman Islands. They've been drafted into a sort of coral Olympics, as scientists look ...

The trend does not suggest that we are necessarily in real crisis territory as far as death by suicide is concerned, but the numbers are enough to indicate that we have a serious problem brewing that ...

ST. CHARLES, MI – An upcoming tree planting event will replace trees St. Charles Community Schools lost due to a tornado that hit the area in May. Volunteers will plant 20 trees during an event this ...

Help care for shelter animals in Nashville while they wait for their new homes. The Brown County Humane Society prides itself on how well it cares for its animals and shelter. Every morning, staff and ...

October 1 marks the start of National Firewood Month, an annual campaign to spread awareness about the importance of using local or heat-treated firewood. Invasive pests like emerald ash borer, Asian ...

The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining and eliminating pollution limits, aims to save an industry that has been declining for decades. By Brad Plumer and ...

Being a homeowner comes with ups and downs and many surprises, and that includes dealing with unexpected landscaping issues. In the r/arborists subreddit, a Reddit user posted a photo of a tree on ...

Forests aren’t just big stretches of trees. They’re ecosystems full of life – each species playing its own role, whether it’s helping the soil breathe, feeding animals, or giving shade to new ...

One doesn’t expect to outlive a tree. Our clocks tick at a different pace. Yet it happens, and sometimes it’s almost like a death in the family. The old shagbark hickory beside our driveway is that ...

Are you seeing tiny holes, oozing sap, and thinning crowns on your beautiful weeping willow trees and mighty maples? Don't be too quick to pin it on old age. They could be signs of a much bigger ...