The pong-pong tree isn't just fiction. The poison plant from the season finale of "The White Lotus" is real. Known as the "suicide tree," the plant has seeds that contain cerberin, a potent cardiac ...

The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Restoring even a fraction of it could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.

It’s a thriller because it involves a young man who doesn’t feel emotions and kills people for a living all of a sudden ...

As Andrew F. Smith details in his 1994 book The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture and Cookery, before the fruit made ...