2022-04-25 Eight Garden Flowers Worth Revisiting
This image provided by Proven Winners shows a sweetly scented heliotrope flower, an old-time garden favorite. (Proven Winners via AP) In Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play Our Town, people gather to…
2022-04-21 Plant Native Plants to Support Local Environment, Wildlife
This June 2020 image provided by Debbie Roos shows North Carolina native plants growing in the demonstration Pollinator Paradise Garden in Pittsboro, N.C. (Debbie Roos/NC Cooperative Extension via AP) Earth…
2022-04-18 Can Cancer Blood Tests Help Save Lives?
Joyce Ares sits for a portrait in the dinning room of her home on Friday, March 18, 2022, in Canby, Ore. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard) Joyce Ares was feeling fine when…
2022-04-16 After Helping Fight COVID-19, US Military Plans for Next Pandemic
U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt. Kaelan Hayes, a clinical nurse assigned to the military medical team deployed to Brockton, Mass., gathers medication as part of the COVID-19 response operations at…
2022-04-11 Teachers Get Mental Health Training, Help Students
Benito Luna-Herrera, a 7th-grade social studies teacher, presents a mental health video, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Since…
2022-04-10 Hugelkultur: A Different Way of Container Gardening
View of two hügelkultur mounds in garden in Glenview, Illinois. April 11, 2017 People without a lot of outdoor space sometimes grow a garden in containers such as raised beds.…
2022-04-09 Experts Discuss How to Update COVID Vaccines
FILE – Medical personnel reach for pre-loaded syringes as they vaccinate students at KIPP Believe Charter School in New Orleans, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Jackson, File) More than…
2022-04-04 Ways to Grow a Child’s Love of Gardening
In this photo provided by Ginny Hughes, members of the Troy Kids’ Garden Learning Community make bouquets at Troy Gardens in Madison, Wis. (Ginny Hughes via AP) From VOA Learning…
2022-03-31 COVID Fight Moves to the Wild
Frank Manthey follows E.J. Isaac and Roger Deschampe Jr. into the Grand Portage, Minn. woods on March 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Emma H. Tobin) Researchers around the world are trying to…
2022-03-28 Is COVID-19 Behind an Increase in Diabetes Cases?
Nolan Balcitis, 12, sits with his dog, Callie, in front of his family’s home in Crown Point, Ind., on March 4, 2022. Nolan was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes six…
2022-03-28 Small space? Small Container Growing!
This image provided by Ball Horticultural Company shows a Kitchen Mini Red Velvet tomato plant, which is suitable for growing in containers. (Ball Horticultural Company via AP) Gardeners, or people…
2022-03-23 Fast-spreading Omicron Sub-variant Raises Concerns
Performers wearing face masks during ceremonies at the Sungnyemun Gate in Seoul, South Korea, March 15, 2022. South Korea had its deadliest day yet of the pandemic recently with a…
2022-03-22 Report: South, Central Asians Breathing Most Polluted Air
FILE: Smoke emits from chimney as a Bangladeshi female worker carries clay at a brick field at Amin Bazar, outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, May 14, 2009. A new study…
2022-03-21 Children, Families Struggle with Repeated COVID-19 Infections
Brooklynn Chiles is one young person who has tested positive for COVID-19 multiple times. While she does not get sick, the virus has caused many problems for her family. She…
2022-03-21 Help with Buying Young Garden Plants in the Spring
This image provided by Jeff Lowenfels shows healthy cell packs of flower starts for sale on May 1, 2017. (Jeff Lowenfels via AP) Many gardeners do not begin to grow…