BABY AND FOUR OTHERS FIGHT FOR LIFE AS TRIBUTES FLOW FOR VICTIMS OF MELBOURNE CARNAGE

Floral tributes continue to build in Melbourne's Bourke Street mall to remember the four killed and the many injured by a rogue driver on Friday... READ MORE›

PESTICIDES STOP BEES BUZZING AND RELEASING POLLEN, SAYS STUDY

Researchers find neonicotinoid insecticides harm ability of bees to vibrate flowers and shake out pollen to fertilise crops... READ MORE›

TRUMP'S POTENTIAL GUEST AT FIRST DEBATE

ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - Donald Trump has threatened to invite Gennifer Flowers, who had an affair with Hillary Clinton's husband, to attend Monday night's presidential debate... READ MORE›

HOLD YOUR NOSE: STINKY CORPSE FLOWER BLOOMS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

Named Morphy, the titan arum -- or corpse flower -- began opening Friday afternoon at the Ivy League college's Life Sciences Greenhouse... READ MORE›

GIANT 'CORPSE FLOWER' BEGINS TO BLOOM FOR FIRST TIME IN FIVE YEARS

Named Morphy, the titan arum housed at Dartmouth College began opening on Friday afternoon at the Ivy League college's life sciences greenhouse... READ MORE›

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HUSBAND PLANTS THOUSANDS OF FLOWERS FOR TWO YEARS TO MAKE HIS BLIND WIFE SMILE AGAIN

Japan may be famous for its cherry blossom at this time of year, but in Miyazaki Prefecture people flock to see a different floral spectacle... READ MORE›

'WORSE THAN ONE THOUSAND PUKES': FETID CORPSE FLOWER OVERWHELMS NEW YORK

In the coming days, corpse flowers in Washington DC, Indianapolis and Sarasota, Florida, are expected to bloom... READ MORE›

THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF OUR HUNGER FOR VALENTINE'S ROSES

Conflict over water and other resources is common in Kenya... READ MORE›

THE WORLD'S FIRST FLOWER? PLANT WITH NO PETALS THAT LIVED UNDERWATER IS 130 MILLION YEARS OLD

Experts dated the weed at between 125 million and 130 million years old and showed that despite appearances it was an angiosperm or flowering plant... READ MORE›

RUSSIA TORCHES FLOWERS TO BURN THE DUTCH

Dutch flower imports to Russia were worth more than 200 million in 2014... READ MORE›

BLOOMING JANUARY! WILDFLOWER SPECIES THINK SPRING'S HERE

From London's Walthamstow marshes to Thirsk in North Yorkshire, the mayflower has been in unprecedented early bloom... READ MORE›

TWITTER HAS 412 YEARS IN CASH TO FIX ITSELF

But the servicing of that debt is already included in the company's free cash flow... READ MORE›

ENCANA TO BUY ATHLON FOR $5.93 BILLION IN PUSH FOR OIL

50 per Athlon share, a 25 percent premium on the stock's Friday closing price... READ MORE›

DUTCH TOWN HARD HIT BY MH17 DISASTER REMEMBERS VICTIMS WITH SUNFLOWERS

The seeds from those plants are to be given away at a memorial service at St Vitus on Friday, a year after the crash... READ MORE›

HOW UNWANTED BUNCHES OF FLOWERS SPARKED A BUSINESS IDEA FOR NEW MUMS

It was the flower overload that sparked a business idea in Douglas' mind with a very literal name Don't Buy Her Flowers... READ MORE›

BETTER THAN MONEY - YELLOW-RATTLE'S PRICELESS GIFTS

As I write I have a small canvas bag of yellow-rattle seed on my desk... READ MORE›

9 TECH COMPANIES ARE DANGEROUSLY BURNING CASH

Investors are stunned the company plans to attempt to raise another 100 million in funding by selling more stock... READ MORE›

CALPERS CHIEF LOOKS TO CUT VOLATILITY AS FUND ENTERS NEGATIVE CASH-FLOW ERA

Investment decisions and strategies followed by Calpers, the largest U.S... READ MORE›

WILD FLOWER GARDEN ACCIDENTALLY DOUSED WITH WEED KILLER

Council officials stressed that the contractors did not realise it was a wild flower garden... READ MORE›

REVITALISED AND CALMED BY AN ENGLISH WOOD IN SPRING

This Forestry Commission-owned, largely broadleaf-planted, forest has mixed ground flora bluebells, yellow lesser celandines and white wood anemones are scattered like an array of colourful stars... READ MORE›

DILIGENT INSECTS IN THE SUMMER GARDEN

There's a low hum from bumblebees foraging deep inside the nearby comfrey flowers, but I'm interested in a different type of bee... READ MORE›

A WOODLAND HERB OF SUBTLE CHARM

A woodland specialist, sanicle has glossy leaves with toothed edges and a tracery of pale raised veins... READ MORE›

THE HOTTEST PLACE ON EARTH IS COVERED IN WILDFLOWERS AFTER HEAVY AUTUMN RAIN

Death Valley The hottest place on Earth is covered in wildflowers after heavy autumn rain... READ MORE›

BELGIUM'S 'FAIRY TALE FOREST' UNDER THREAT FROM TRAMPLING TOURISTS

Only time will tell if the flower carpet can survive the invasion of iPhone-wielding tourists 100 years after it survived the Germans... READ MORE›

HONEYSUCKLE CLIMBS FOR SUNLIGHT IN THE WOOD'S DEEP SHADOW

Some small flies resting on the flowers were almost certainly Chromatomyia aprilina, whose leaf-mining larvae feed inside honeysuckle leaves... READ MORE›

FLOWER START-UPS CUT OUT RED ROSES FOR VALENTINE'S DAY

To be sure, with their romantic undertones, roses remain the most popular way to celebrate the date... READ MORE›

AMBER-ENTOMBED FLOWER MAY HAVE BEEN TOXIC

A newly identified and exquisitely preserved flower found entombed in amber -- fossilized tree sap -- may have packed quite a punch... READ MORE›

GO WITH THE SCAPA FLOW IN EUROPE'S BEST WRECK-DIVING SITE

One hundred years ago, on 5 June 1916, the British naval officer, Lord Kitchener, drowned off Orkney's Scapa Flow, near Marwick Head... READ MORE›

PLANT FROM 130 MILLION YEARS AGO IS AMONG FIRST FLOWERS STUDY

Dilcher said the seed "is borne upside down."... READ MORE›