Wood engineered for strength and safety offers architects an alternative to carbon-intensive steel and concrete.

Created from almost nothing, Cancún has become a tourist playground that both celebrates and obscures the history of the Yucatán and its peoples.

Writers have long plotted murder mysteries in gardens of all sorts. What makes these fertile grounds for detective fiction?

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Black communities and other reformers in New York City recognized the ameliorative social effects of greening urban spaces.

Freedman's Village, created in Arlington, VA at the end of the Civil War, became a thriving community of Black residents as part of Reconstruction.

The blood of western fence lizards has the ability to neutralize Lyme disease in ticks—so why aren’t scientists bottling it to sell at the grocery store?

A landscape architect of the 1950s predicted that lady drivers would want pastel-colored pavement on the interstate.

Some superstar trees in the US are actually invasive to their ecosystems. Blossoming cherry trees, for example.

Shopping malls are in trouble, as are the commercial mortgage-backed securities built around them. Can another 2008 be averted?