Delving into the design elements, Silky adds that the collection blends traditional Indian craftsmanship with a fresh, ...

Now, in the upper canopies of Earth’s tropical forests, roughly 1 in every 10,000 leaves experiences temperatures at least once a year that may be too high for photosynthesis, researchers report ...

This robust, easy-to-grow tropical indoor plant can grow up to nine feet. Needs: Bright light and 11 inches of space on either side of the plant so the glossy leaves have room to grow outward.

Teeming with life and stretching across multiple continents, tropical forests are often called the “lungs of the planet” because of their ability to suck up climate-warming carbon dioxide and ...

Some leaves in tropical forests from South America to South East Asia are getting so hot they may no longer be able to photosynthesize, with big potential consequences for the world’s forests ...

But large leaves can cope in hot, wet, tropical climates because they counteract the daytime heat-trapping effect using transpiration – something desert plants cannot do because they cannot ...

By performing laboratory leaf experiments at 3.6, 5.4 and 7.2 F (2, 3 and 4 C) of warming, the researchers found that temperatures around some of the leaves peaked much higher than the air ...