Gardeners and hikers beware: Poison ivy may look like an unassuming plant, but it's one you're going to want to be able to identify before you wind up with an uncomfortable rash. If you do come home ...

Eastern poison ivy is often seen growing on buildings, trees or in fence rows as a vine, but western poison ivy grows as a small shrub or “ground cover” in ...

If Socrates were alive today, he would do well to consume only food and drink which he himself prepared, as the plant which was used to kill him is alive and well throughout the contiguous United ...

Maine’s Board of Pesticides Control says two summer residents poisoned a neighbor’s trees so the couple, both Martha Stewart associates, could have a harbor view. They deny it. Stephen Antonson, a ...

A disguise-wearing GP who tried to kill his mother's partner with poison in a row over an inheritance has been banned from working as a doctor. Thomas Kwan, 54, was masquerading as a community nurse ...

It’s easy to take trees for granted. We see them every day. There are tall trees, short trees, and trees that sprawl and spread. Some are deciduous, dropping their leaves in fall and growing new ones ...

How do you cool yourself on a hot day? Perhaps you find shade, switch on a fan or retreat to air conditioning? But spare a thought for tropical forest trees. As the climate warms, they must either ...

Two students at Cornell University in New York state killed a 120-pound black bear, then dragged it back to their dorm, where they skinned and butchered the animal. Both students, who were not ...

Robert Charles Alexander is the Senior Crime and Court Reporter for Newsweek based in London. He formerly worked as a Political Correspondent for the Local Democracy Service of the BBC, and is a ...

JERUSALEM/DOHA/WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - If Israel failed to kill Hamas leaders in an airstrike on Qatar on Tuesday, it would succeed next time, the Israeli ...