It’s a question that led three friends to rethink what pepper tastes like and launch their single-origin brand.

Dianna Bisset finds a dead wombat on the side of the road, with a small bullet mark just behind its ear. In town, there's no mystery as to why this protected species is in the crosshairs.

Hotspots for the conservation of maire tawake or swamp maire in the Wellington region have been identified by researchers ...

@UFIFAS_IRREC Entomology & Nematology PhD Student Kristen Bowers released 850 thrips to help fight the Brazilian pepper tree. The fast-growing plant takes over habitats of native plants and wildlife.

Residents with any of these trees on their property will not have to remove them. If they do decide to remove them, they will not need to seek development approval.

It is also the state that fells the highest share of native trees—18.5% in the year to June 30, 2023, compared to a national average of 10%, according to government figures.

Curtis Stone's L.A. restaurants Gwen and the Pie Room are just part of the Australian chef's expanding businesses. At his Agoura Hills farm he's established a production studio to demo his ...

In the forests of O'ahu, something unusual is happening. When people hike through these forests, they might think they are ...

Like other invasive species, Brazilian pepper hogs the nearby ecology at the expense of plants and animals that belong. Few knew of its toxic effects when they planted the tree as decoration more ...

And maybe a whole chili pepper, still bright red, tells us about someone who liked to spice up their meals. Each seed gets us a little bit closer to the lives of the women of Sydney 150 years ago.

Jacarandas also "grow quite quickly", roughly 2-3 metres a year, he said. "This means they can outgrow most of our natives and then shade out many of the native species within the ecosystem ...