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Thousand Oaks resident Mary Freed prepares to plant a native yucca plant at Rancho Sierra Vista/Satwiwa during the National Park Service’s MLK Day of Service on Jan. 18 in Newbury Park.

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Nuclear energy, and, particularly for me, nuclear ship propulsion, continues to be a tantalizing solution to CO2 reduction.We ...

In my earlier years of gardening, I was attracted to and purchased unusual plants. Many of those didn’t survive beyond their ...

The greenhouse manager at Norfolk Botanical Garden shows why these Latinized names are well worth exploring — not only for ...

As nuclear waste piles up around the country, many communities are saying ‘no’ to taking it. In a rural corner of Colorado, ...

Although the United States holds the largest inventory of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, it has no ...

Nobel Prizes honored research in biology and AI, including foundational work on artificial neural networks, which enable machine learning and other ...

Inevitably I find plants that shouldn’t be planted in a Zone 5 landscape. I eventually conclude that I can’t move to Arizona just so I can grow a Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) and Organ Pipe ...