In Japan, rare Henon bamboo is flowering for the first time in 120 years, but many stands are now dying back—raising fears some may never bloom again.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have, for the first time, recorded the songs of the Chinese hwamei Garrulax canorus ...

Yamazaki Distillery near Kyoto is the oldest malt whisky distillery in Japan, and you can take tours and taste some of the rarest whiskies in the country.

While flower beds slumber through the British winter, artists are at work capturing their beauty. But the genre is too often under-appreciated ...

“Pyrethrin is the most important insecticide in the world,” says Joel Maina Kibett, chief agriculture officer of Nakuru ...

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s ...

Discover the Meijer Japanese Garden in Great Rapids, Michigan. Here, ancient garden design renews the deeper human-nature ...