Almond trees might not be your first thought when looking for plants to grow in containers, but these spring-blooming trees ...

From mid to late February, groves of almond trees scattered throughout Europe signal the coming of spring by bursting into seas of blossoms in shades of tender pink and white. Many places blessed with ...

Agriculture and the change in soil use produce 23% of the total emissions of greenhouse gases of anthropogenic origin. Moreover, the expansion and intensification of agriculture are considered ...

ALCALALÍ, Spain (CN) — A lethal Central American plant disease devastating olive trees in southern Italy is now killing almond trees in southern Spain, a serious development for an outbreak ...

You can make milk out of just about anything nowadays: legumes, fruits, grains, you name it. One of the most popular sources of nondairy milk is, of course, nuts—or, more accurately, drupes. Almond ...

Wind doesn't necessarily harm almond trees. Neither does rain. But put them together in the wrong sequence, and look out! Local growers were counting their blessings Monday after escaping the weekend ...

Almond trees bloom in mid- to late February in Central California, and it’s a big deal — pollinating them is the largest managed pollination event in the world. Some 1.4 million beehives come to the ...

Editor’s note: Marshall Brain – futurist, inventor, NCSU professor, writer and creator of “How Stuff Works” is a contributor to WRAL TechWire. Brain takes a serious as well as entertaining look at a ...

In late winter, David Bradshaw walks the rows of blossoming almond trees in California’s San Joaquin Valley listening to the hum of his honey bees at work. Some swoop to the base of the flower aiming ...