While I was thinking I should write about a spring-like subject, the dawn chorus that now greets us every morning or the skunk cabbage and rhubarb pushing up through the thin remains of the snow, but ...

The fungus inonotus tamaricis, which lives on tamarisk trees, is known in Maltese as lixka tal-bruk. Lixka is the Maltese name for shelf or bracket fungi. In fact, this species characteristically ...

According to the calendar, winter began with the winter solstice of Dec. 21. It will end at the time of the vernal equinox March 21. As we travel through these days of the cold season, we might note ...