Ice fishing is a longstanding tradition in Nordic countries, with competitions proving especially popular. Those competitions can also tell scientists something about how social cues influence how we ...

Scientists built a robot to help explain how a tropical bat spots insects perched on leaves using echolocation, a highly sophisticated behavior that requires precise, split-second decision making on ...

FARGO — There is food everywhere if you know where to look. Chokecherries grow abundantly in wooded areas, while ditches along township roads can be home to riverbank grapes. Northwest Minnesota and ...

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food," said Hippocrates ... maybe (or maybe not). There's no doubt, however, that medicine's founding father from ancient Greece understood that what we ...

People might not think of winter as a fruitful season for foraging wild edibles, but nutritionist and expert forager Debbie Naha says there's actually a lot out there that you can find year-round.

It’s June and the larger-than-your-face, white umbrella-shaped blooms of American elderberry (Sambucus canadensis) burst from the greenery, seemingly out of nowhere. Elderflowers are a seasonal joy, ...

A spat between birds at a backyard birdfeeder highlights the sometimes fierce competition for resources that animals face in the natural world, but some ecologically similar species appear to coexist ...

Since September 9, environmentalist Rob Greenfield has only been eating what he’s foraged On Sunday afternoon, Rob Greenfield felt like having a snack. However, instead of grabbing chips or a sandwich ...

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Foraging, it must be said, is dangerous work. This is mostly because of the inherent dangers of getting poisoned: The wrong weeds can kill you. For Pascal Baudar, the 54-year-old Belgian who is a ...