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Many common houseplants can be toxic to humans and pets if ingested or sometimes even touched. Here are a few examples of poisonous houseplants:

Winter is far a far cry from being prime mushroom hunting season. Most fungi stop producing mushrooms, or fruiting bodies, in early autumn, and their hyphae (filamentous structures that are the main part of the fungal body) are out of sight, inside...

Wilson Bentley (1865-1931) lived his entire life in Jericho, Vermont, where he developed a passion for snowflakes at an early age. He started by collecting snowflakes and trying to create detailed drawings of each one, but the snow crystals’ tiny size...

My German mother was a highly superstitious soul, especially when it came to the natural world. Case in point, one day a “fairy ring” of mushrooms appeared in our yard. My mother became agitated and told me not to disturb the ring, for it was a...

Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in ‘Worktown Studies’ at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history Lancashire, during and after the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, was a dirty and polluted place to live. We’ll never know the true toll on people’s lives as a result of atmospheric pollution but it must have been enormous. There was no NHS. If you were ill you had to pay, unless you were lucky enough to be protected by a friendly society or trade union (which of course you ha...