Finally, there's some good news for charities. A growing number of companies and nonprofit organizations has agreed to cover the $4 million shortfall in contributions that resulted from last month's ...

WATER COOLER philanthropy is in trouble. Donations to charities are skidding along with the economy, and now comes a scandal that could cut more dollars from anyone who has ever flipped open a wallet ...

Nonprofit organizations and the California attorney general’s office continue to deal with the fallout from the shutdown of PipeVine, a San Francisco nonprofit group that processed donations totaling ...

Butterfly gardening is a popular pastime in North Texas. In our ardor to provide sustenance, however, we may be serving up a deadly dish unwittingly. The iridescent black-and-blue pipevine swallowtail ...

Question: In a May 30, 2008 question regarding the toxicity of certain Aristolochia species to pipevine swallowtail larvae, I had heard the same from at a talk from the curator of the Cockrell ...

SAN FRANCISCO — This spring, the dramatic return of a rare, blue iridescent butterfly dazzled onlookers at the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park. Neighbor John Gale, who visits the ...

The drama is real for this sultry flower, a gorgeous butterfly and an unlucky fungus gnat. The devilish caterpillars of the pipevine swallowtail butterfly *devour* the California pipevine, never mind ...

CHICO — Thomas and I are feeling trapped these days. This trapped feeling is part our annual winter woes, induced from days of on-again, off-again rain. I don’t mind walking in the rain, and neither ...

Most of us could walk through garden greenery for most of our lives without ever seeing what goes on under a leaf. Take the tiny pipevine caterpillars that were munching away at a communal dinner on ...

Last year was a bad year for butterflies. A winter warm spell, followed by a month of cold, wet weather took a heavy toll on many species. By contrast, the dry conditions this winter are having the ...

A few weeks ago, I got a call from my friend Ryan Woolwine, asking if we could “cat sit” for him while he went on vacation. It wasn’t a feline-type kitty cat he wanted me to take care of, but rather ...