South African coal-fired power stations have received limited exemptions from air quality laws and harmful emissions ...

Analysis - Coconut trees are iconic plants found across the world's tropical regions. They're called "nature's supermarket" ...

Hundreds of ancient fynbos species could regrow and restore a former pine plantation on Cape Town’s Table Mountain, but only ...

Diversifying food sources and developing underused, nutrient-rich crops could help combat malnutrition and enhance food ...

Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their vehicle crunches ...

It's hoped these naturally occurring seed banks could be used to restore one of the country's most iconic plant ecosystems.

For many years, scientists had had difficulties studying migration in insects because of their size and experts’ inability to ...

Kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects humanity and all life from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays. But in the troposphere, at ground level, this gas can wreak havoc on ...

After a week of stress-reducing activities (and no caffeine) in what has to be one of the prettiest places to decompress, ...

We estimate that about 80 percent of the Goliathus cacicus population has been wiped out in Côte d'Ivoire if we consider the amount of forest destroyed for cocoa farming. Goliathus regius has ...

UC Riverside scientists discovered how to make parasitic weeds die early using plant hormones. This method could help farmers ...