The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

By Stephen Asante, GNA Special Correspondent, Beijing, China Beijing, July 02, GNA – Building a shared future for all life on ...

An international publication led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory highlights how upgrading current plankton models is critical to ...

Trees in tropical forests are dying at an increased rate, with consequences for biodiversity, carbon storage, and the global ...

Plants and trees send their roots into the ground to soak up water and nutrients from the soil. Until now, scientists ...

Properly managing forests requires tools that offer up-to-date information on forest dynamics.

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

a researcher in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, who installed the EC system at ...

Cascadia College Earth and Environmental Sciences Professor Midori Sakura looks in the surrounding trees for wildlife at the North Creek Wetlands on Wednesday, June 4, 2025 in Bothell, Washington.

Plant conservation is at a critical crossroads as botanic gardens around the world struggle to protect Earth’s most endangered plants. A recent review of the processes behind this global species ...

In world-first research published in Nature, my colleagues and I counted and mapped the diversity of plant life on Earth’s islands. We found 21 per cent of the world’s total plant species are endemic ...

While the same laws of physics reign over Earth’s smallest and largest species, the balance of forces shifts with size. Intermolecular forces flex beneath the feet of water striders on a pond, ...