Botanical safety: Is Article 8 fit for purpose?
During a keynote presentation at the Botanical Safety Consortium on Sept. 29, Thomas Brendler, PhD, a scientist and…
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…
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…
Giant Daisies Rewrite the Rules of Evolution
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) was a British naturalist whose work transformed biology by providing a unifying explanation for the…
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…
Scientist use DNA in efforts to help species adapt to climate change
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Evolution works over millennia. Climate change is moving far faster. That mismatch is killing…
US plans to clear-cut in Michigan forest. Some fear for endangered species
The US Forest Service is proposing a massive project in a national forest in Michigan that would log…
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…
Give your Christmas tree a second life, completely for free | The Latest from WDEL News
RACHEL M SUGA Do you not know what to do with your Christmas tree? Delaware Center for Horticulture…
Habitat for endangered whooping cranes guarded in new Texas sanctuary
WOLFBERRY WHOOPING CRANE SANCTUARY, Texas (AP) — Carter Crouch has been fascinated by the whooping crane’s conservation story…
Researchers investigate secret underground life of saguaros
Saguaro National Park isn’t in the business of digging up its namesake cactuses. But if it has to…