Winter Storm Fern turned Lubbock and the South Plains - as well as much of the country - into a winter wonderland, but also brought its share of hazards. The National Weather Service in Lubbock ...

This photo feature, called Best Shots, showcases our favorite reader-submitted photographs of the week. This week features a lot of images from Winter Storm Fern. Although it brought below-freezing ...

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On a beautiful Saturday morning in early June, I volunteered at Wilson’s Farm in Brighton Township for an environmental field study to learn the language of ferns. Though I often noticed copious ...

There are few forms of the botanical world as readily identifiable as fern leaves. These often large, lacy fronds lend themselves nicely to watercolor paintings and tricep tattoos alike. Thoreau said ...

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 ...

Research by Assistant Professor Jacob S. Suissa at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is revealing complexity in how ferns have evolved. Instead of the vascular structure inside fern stems ...