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Native bloodroot plant named after iconic Australian Hills hoist clothesline
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Meet The Tree That Produces The Only True Blue Fruit On The Planet. Hint: It’s Not Actually Blue
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Resilient desert plant shows how agricultural crops could beat global warming
Life in places like California’s Death Valley pushes everything to its limit. Temperatures rise past 120 degrees Fahrenheit.…
UNESCO designates 26 new biosphere reserves amid biodiversity challenges and climate change
An Indonesian archipelago that’s home to three-fourths of Earth’s coral species, a stretch of Icelandic coast with 70%…
Researchers using cryopreservation to save critically endangered Gossia gonoclada
Cryopreservation was once the stuff of science fiction, but now the technology is being used to help save…
A Berlin garden of flavorsome herbs revives a monastic health tradition
BERLIN — In a secluded lot next to a former gasworks in suburban Berlin, Martin Rötzel is breathing…