Australia is home to more than 1,800 orchid species—many found nowhere else. But these unique plants face growing threats.

They're housed in a room with head-high metal cabinets on rollers. Inside are shelves with seemingly all the wonders of the plant kingdom in boxes, bags and on archival paper. Wood samples from Brazil ...

They are more than just plants in cabinets. When visiting the Rocky Mountain Herbarium located in the Aven Nelson building on ...

Mark Mudie was operating a front-end loader to establish a firebreak in West River when his vehicle was engulfed by flames.

When the U.S. Congress established Yellowstone as the first national park in 1872, it was “for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.” Its founding marked the birth of the U.S. National Park System ...