HALLE, Belgium (AP) — Gilles Gui was looking for the magical purple bluebells that raise their heads each spring under the budding beech leaves of the Hallerbos forest, an annual explosion of color ...

The long wait to see the spring woods open up and produce new wildflowers was worth it. Quickly, as snow melted, the next phase began on the same forest floor that was covered by a snowpack lasting ...

As the spring equinox approaches on March 20, you might be wondering about how to maximize the season. How can you take advantage of the lovely weather, the budding trees and the blooming flowers to ...

This free Windows 7 theme puts flower power on your desktop, just in time for spring. It’s finally spring–or at least the calendar says it is. Here in San Francisco there’s still a serious chill in ...

This is the first episode of Nature Quest, a monthly Short Wave segment that answers listener questions about your local environment. Every month, we'll be bringing you a question from a fellow ...

Spring is here, but the signs of spring are slow to come. Most of the woodland wildflowers have yet to push up through the leaf litter on the forest floor. However, there are two early bloomers, ...

Few things are more hopeful than a lovely and delicate wildflower poking up from the ground on a chilly day in early spring. Although often overlooked, Ohio’s ephemeral spring blooms are as much a ...

Where’s the snow? Why is it 70 degrees? Yada yada yada — we didn’t have a winter. I don’t want to talk about it. Instead, let’s enjoy the spring transpiring before our eyes. The frogs, they think it’s ...

During the final episode of American Spring LIVE, we asked YOU to share your best photos of spring blooms in your neighborhood on the Nature Facebook page, and you didn’t disappoint! We received over ...

Malaka Gharib is the digital editor of the NPR podcast Life Kit. Previously, she was the deputy editor and digital strategist on NPR's global health and development team, where she covered topics such ...