Manila Water Co. is building what would be the Philippines’ largest sewage-treatment plant in a move to improve urban green and sustainability works.

Different plants have different watering needs: California native plants, for example, need significantly less water than, say, roses and vegetables.

Many flowering species native to the Mediterranean region are adapted to hotter, drier climates, as are drought-tolerant plants from countries like Africa or Mexico.

Many gardeners find it a challenge identifying plants for wet soil. Most plots have dank, wet spots where water tends to sit, brooks overflow, springs discharge or there is a naturally high water ...

Scientists in Germany have described two new monitor lizard species (Varanus spp.) and one new subspecies from the Philippines. Their comprehensive study of the Philippine water monitors revealed ...

How to feed and water rock garden plants The main requirement of rock garden plants is free-draining soil that doesn’t get waterlogged.

A corn plant knows how to find water in soil with the very tips of its roots, but some varieties, including many used for breeding high-yielding corn in the U.S., appear to have lost a portion of ...

Scientists from the University of the Philippines, Los Baños have discovered a new plant species with an unusual lifestyle -- it eats nickel for a living -- accumulating up to 18,000 ppm of the ...

Q. Can tomato plants absorb water through their leaves on humid days? Also on cool and hot days, how often do you need to water with our heavy clay soil? – C.W., Crown Point, Ind. A. While plants can ...

Workers plant varieties of rice being developed by the International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos town, Laguna province, Philippines. Ted Aljibe/AFP via Getty Images But there was a problem.

After the seeds germinated and grew, Carlos Magdalena, one of the study researchers at the Kew Gardens, saw that the plants appeared different from the two known species of giant water lily.

Manila: The Philippines plans to build 20 more dams, in a mega infrastructure investment drive aimed to scale up power generation and boost irrigation in the face of El Niño.