Zimbabwe is Africa's biggest producer of tobacco but some farmers believe the country's long-term future could lie in a very ...

This video explores the tobacco plant Nicotiana rustica, also known as Aztec tobacco or strong tobacco. A member of the Solanaceae family, it can contain up to nine times more nicotine than common ...

Capable of taking over homes and regrowing from a one-centimetre fragment, an invasion of Japanese knotweed is any gardener's worst nightmare. But experts now warn that the clumping Japanese weed is ...

ROBERTSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — From tiny seed to fired leaf, Robertson County is one of only a few places in the world where dark-fired tobacco is made. News 2 spent a day on a 700-acre farm with ...

EDF will extend the lifetimes of two UK nuclear power plants—Heysham 1 in Lancashire and Hartlepool in Teesside—by an additional 12 months to March 2028 in a bid to secure the country’s energy ...

Centrica has confirmed that Heysham 1 and Hartlepool nuclear power stations will remain in operation until March 2028, extending their previously expected closure dates by one year. The extension, ...

“As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe readers. ENFIELD, Conn. — With the single swing of their hatchets, the Jamaican ...

Wouldn't it be great if the plants in your home could do more than just sit there looking pretty? Researchers at South China Agricultural University in the city of Guangzhou have found a way to ...

HATFIELD — One by one, workers at the M.A. Wendolowski Farm swing hatchets into Connecticut broadleaf tobacco plants, cutting them down for transport. The freshly harvested stalks are quickly loaded ...

On a recent July morning, Dwight Arnold stood in front of one of his Connecticut shade tobacco fields, the plants shielded from the sun by a white shade cloth, barking orders to the mix of men and ...

When a plant is stressed, it doesn’t keep quiet about it. You won’t hear the plant’s cry because it’s in the ultrasonic range — too high-pitched for human ears — but, for decades, scientists have been ...