Inorganic Chemicals

Question: A gardenia bush in my yard has a black mold that I sprayed with an insecticide. The leaves are turning yellow and dropping, but the mold is not going away. What should I do? Answer: A number of pests might be present on your gardenia, but the...

Dear Heloise: Could you please reprint the roach recipe? It has helped me in the past. — Trish in Houston The "recipe" is to kill roaches, not cook them! Roaches feed on kitchen scraps, crumbs, garbage, bookbinding, soap, paper, paint chips,...

With gas and grocery prices up, finding money to keep your backyard bird feeder stocked can be a stretch. Be kind to your fine feathered friends without breaking the bank with these tips from the National Wildlife Federation: • Plant natural...

There's no need to fumigate your roses with all sorts of potentially harmful chemicals. To keep yourself and the environment safer, use these tips for growing and enjoying roses the natural way. The tips come from Charlie Nardozzi, senior horticulturist...

Here's a camellia-care calendar from Sabrina Canter, who cares for flowers in the Hofheimer Camellia Garden at Norfolk Botanical Garden, and Marcus Jones, curator of woody plants at the garden. NOVEMBER-MAY Prune. Camellia sassanquas (fall blooming) and...

Masked workers with mosquito-killing spray guns began moving through refugee camps Friday in tsunami-battered Aceh province, trying to prevent an outbreak of malaria. Indonesia, meanwhile, said it is pursuing a permanent truce with rebels in the area, the...

WASHINGTON -- The EPA has tentatively agreed to new restrictions that will allow a Southern California pesticide maker to keep a controversial insecticide on the market, the agency announced Tuesday. Newport Beach-based Amvac volunteered to cancel some...

THE ROAD to Uganda's northeastern Kaberamaido District is not for timid drivers. Maps show it as paved, but it has no shoulders, no painted stripe dividing its two narrow lanes and, in some places, no asphalt. Overloaded trucks and crammed matatus —...

THE lake was glassy and dark, the sky black and filled with stars. I was perched on an Adirondack chair at the end of a dock and felt suspended in the universe. The only sound was the soft lapping of small waves against the shoreline; the only scent was a...

In a room in a Seattle office building, behind what seems like enough safeguards to protect the occupants of a nuclear submarine, anopheles mosquitoes dine on Special K and the occasional malaria-infected mouse. Researcher Stefan Kappe of the Seattle...

When the sun goes down in Africa, death stalks the children. It seldom comes from jungle cats or venomous snakes, but often from bugs smaller than a toddler's thumbnail. Every year, their deadly sting kills more people than at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, more...

The sun begins its descent toward distant pines as Paul Nuwer taxis the white, twin-engine turboprop plane onto Runway 3-4 at Cambridge Dorchester Municipal Airport. Nuwer revs the engines to 42,000 rpm, releases the brake and accelerates the aircraft to...