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A watermelon with rot on the outside.

Food

Gardener cuts into undersized watermelon with rot, and finds bright red fruit inside

Two pumpkins.

Home

Gardener distraught after groundhog devours volunteer pumpkin just as it ripens

A Bengal tiger canna lily.

Home

Long-awaited Bengal Tiger canna lily bloom stuns gardeners with its tropical colors

A monarch butterfly on a coneflower.

Home

Garden expert says August harvests can survive arid heat with enough attention

Newly planted lavender.

Home

Gardener's lavender turns a once-bare yard into a bee hotspot in 18 months

A hummingbird moth near flowers.

Home

'A tiny flying lobster-bee': Hummingbird moth steals the show in a garden teeming with blooms

A yard.

Home

Spotless yards and gardens may be starving local wildlife, creator warns

Jumping worms in a petri dish on soil.

Tech

Minnesota warns of invasive jumping worms that thrash like snakes, destroy soil

An Edison International campus.

Business

Southern California program erases up to $8,000 in utility debt after a year of on-time payments

A digital camera from the 1990s shown next to a black-and-white picture from that camera.

Tech

Thrifted camera in Arizona reveals lost family photos, and starts a search to return them

A bear walks down a narrow, tree-lined alleyway.

Outdoors

Young bear vanishes after 2-hour search in Utah neighborhood as drought drives sightings

White flowers with yellow and brown centers among green leaves.

Outdoors

'Vicious' multiflora rose spreads across Nova Scotia, crowding out native plants