Dating back around 4000 years, this age-old plant watering method gardeners used is based on the science of suction and slow ...

Some plants use aerenchyma, a tissue, which acts like a snorkel, transporting gases between submerged and exposed parts of ...

Microplastics have practically invaded every corner of the planet, from oceans, animals, and even your morning cup of tea.

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I must have an affinity for plants that want to hurt me. I love Oleanders and talk about them to anyone who will listen, but ...

The European Space Agency’s astronaut cohort includes a parastronaut, as part of a feasibility project. AP Photo/Francois Mori Jesse Rhoades, University of North Dakota and Rebecca Rhoades, University ...

New evidence shows plant leaves absorb airborne microplastics, a previously overlooked route for the particles to enter crops ...

Institute for Sustainable Food Research Fellow, Dr Jess Dunn, has been awarded a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences ...

Researchers did lab experiments and tested real plants, like corn, to see how the plastics entered the leaves. They found that the tiny plastic particles float in the air, land on the leaves, and ...

Nankai University researchers have found that plant leaves can directly absorb microplastics (MPs) from the atmosphere, ...

Climate change has brought the extreme, erratic and unseasonal weather that’s now damaging and even killing our plants.  So we need to ...

TIANJIN, April 10 (Xinhua) -- A joint study led by Chinese scientists has demonstrated that plant leaves can absorb and accumulate airborne microplastics, revealing a direct pathway for these ...