Plant life in the warming Arctic alters lush knee-high jungle
TOOLIK LAKE, Alaska (AP) — With no tall trees reaching to the sky, Alaska’s North Slope tundra can…
Activists’ roadblocks try to stop logging old-growth forests in Canada
PORT RENFREW, British Columbia (AP) — The five-car caravan crept down a gravel logging road as the day’s…
Scientists Uncover New Plant Species Hidden in Plain Sight for More Than 100 Years
Phebalium banyabba. Credit: Paul Sheringham A plant misidentified for more than a century has been named as a…
What Can Architectural Practice Learn From Botany?
Guangzhou Yunxi Botanical Garden / AECOM + Architectural Design & Research Institute of SCUT + Guangzhou Landscape Architectural…
Scientists Just Found Something Weird Inside Moss
Mosses are famous for surviving conditions that would kill most plants, but new research suggests they may not…
Invasive plant threatens livelihoods in Colombia’s largest coastal wetland
NUEVA VENECIA, Colombia (AP) — Leaning over the side of a small speedboat, Jhon Cantillo scoops up a…
Scientists Discover Plants “Scream” – We Just Couldn’t Hear Them Until Now
New research suggests that plants under stress release ultrasonic sounds that can travel through the air, potentially carrying…
A family’s solitary fight to save endangered plants in the Amazon
ALTO ILA, Ecuador — On a recent journey into the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle, Ramón Pucha realized he was…
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%…
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…