Did they once belong to Vietnam's royal family? Perhaps. But for Ben Zucker, a "sleuth" of the gems trade, seeking the answer matters more than finding it
From a forest that flourished 207 million years ago, the Sherman Logs bear stony witness to a general's curiosity--and life in an age gone by
Life not only thrives in the heat and violence of Earth's submarine volcanoes, it may have started there
Across America, a network of scrap-metal firms is supplying much of the raw materials, iron to aluminum, that fuel the growing global economy
The Smithsonian's gardens and greenery are things of beauty and delight as well as utility
It's a violent world at the edges of our continental shelves, which could serve as a geology textbook
Using natural landforms and native grasses and plants, golf course designers are creating links that are environmentally up to par
An all-day Saturday seminar on spices - one of the many programs on the Mall, around the world, even in cyberspace, offered by the Smithsonian Associates
Ganna Walska pursued life with a passion, from husbands to opera to plants. Her legacy is Lotusland, an exotic California garden
To scientists at the National Soil Tilth Lab in Ames, Iowa, it's not just dirt they are probing it's the planet's sustaining surface
Experiments at sea show we can cause phytoplankton to bloom in areas where it otherwise would not
Methyl bromide makes our fields fruitful; it will soon be banned, not because it's toxic and it's very toxic but because it attacks the ozone layer
Working alone, by hand, one man is turning 100 acres of alien trees into a refuge for Hawaii's endangered botanical treasures
If it is tall, wide and thick enough, it might qualify for listing on the National Register of Big Trees--but first someone has to find it
The experts believe Mount Rainier will give plenty of notice before it erupts again--the problem is that it can kill in other ways
The innovative dwellings designed by Seattle architect James Cutler are rooted in the wooded contours of the land they complement
When a drop of rain carries a particle of dirt off the land and into the sea, there are repercussions from deep within Earth to the nearer reaches of space
Blue luminescence and marine snow define a world where millions of species of worms and other invertebrates live out their lives
The Sonoran Desert's mighty saguaro cactus is the living embodiment of the Southwest, a 'charismatic megaplant' that people care about
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