AUSTIN, Texas - Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is warning residents across the state to exercise extreme caution ...

In Joël Penkman’s article “Small plants, big business” about the rise of plant poaching (Magazine, Life & Arts, January 25) my eye was caught by the name Robert Fortune, who Penkman tells us “brought ...

Poppies bring a delightful, delicate look to any garden with their tissue-like petals in spring. You'll be shocked to learn this is the best time to plant them.

One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the ...

Donald Trump is now the 47th president of the United States, as well as the 45th president, a businessman - and a man who knows how to put on a show. Former presidents, Trump family members, tech ...

The fires continue to burn, and the full extent of the damage is still unknown. These latest photos show what's left of places thousands of people call home: What caused the massive blaze in ...

According to research, consumption of contaminated poppy seeds have been associated with “opium-like overdose symptoms, such as reduced consciousness and respiratory depression,” and death.

Scorched trees are everywhere. I’m going to keep photographing the trees. They are part of us.” “While there were lots of images that illustrated the enormity of the disaster better than this, it was ...

No Westerner had penetrated this deep into Imperial China and the Buddhist monks at the monastery had given him what he had come to steal: plants and seeds of ... the opium trade and the growing ...