Photo by Nick Turland

Led by scientists from the Missouri Botanical Garden, an international collaboration of scientific institutions has published the 32nd volume of the Flora of China, the definitive work on all Chinese wild orchids.

Since 1988, scientists have been working to…

Over the past few days, the watercooler talk at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has shifted from Balloon Boy to the large number of ladybugs that seem to be swarming the downtown area.

 Personally, EcoSpeak enjoys ladybugs, long-considered a symbol of good…

A study that analyzed 85,000 teeth collected from St. Louis children in the 1960’s shows that male donors who died of cancer as adults had more than double the amount of a radioactive isotope created by nuclear fallout than healthy…

Photo by the Open Space Council

The Open Space Council for the St. Louis region is once again looking for volunteers to help clean up the Meramec River and its tributaries on Aug. 22-23.

Could be a big job. With all the…

I guess it should be no surprise that the asthma capital of the nation has some of the worst air quality.

Nonetheless, the American Lung Association has ranked St. Louis as the 17th worst city in the nation in terms of…