THE BOTANICAL JOURNAL

The small but immensely important country of Panama is known as the crossroads of the Americas. Geographically, Panama is an isthmus connecting North America to South America and economically

An ancient sea where Odysseus escaped the sirens song or heroically battled the brutish Cyclops is my imagined association. Although a more real place, the Sargasso Sea is surrounded by...

The islands of Bermuda do not have mountains, thus rivers or streams. However, fresh water is gathered naturally from rain and stored underground. Under the islands is a vast system...

Turbulence, not the ordinary jostle, but feats of gravity stomach flips. I quickly pull open the window cover, snow-white clouds blanket the earth, then, such a downward surge that the...