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With tarantula-like orchids and giant bananas, New Guinea is officially the most floristically diverse island in the world.
Duckweed is the perfect space food: small, fast-growing and nutritious. By studying how light levels changed the production of radiation-fighting antioxidants, researchers made it even better.
The COVID-19 pandemic has boosted interest in home gardening. Three scientists who garden explain some basic methods for controlling common insects and microbes that can spoil your crop.
Fungi and other organisms called oomycetes are
highly adaptable. That’s bad news for the global food supply.
Glacier mice aren’t rodents – they’re mysterious balls of moss that manage to live in one of the world’s harshest environments.
Did you read about ‘dinosaur trees’ saved in a secret firefighting mission over summer? Well, these mysterious trees are turning up in backyards in 27 different countries.
New research sheds light on the unsung heroes of pollination.
Beyond buying a fish tank or house plants, there are a number of creative ways to bring nature’s calming effects into your home.
About half of incarcerated women in the United States are mothers to children under age 18. Natural spaces within a prison can help maintain their mother-child bonds.
What drives people to garden isn’t the fear of hunger so much as hunger for physical contact – and a longing to engage in work that is real.
Plants have evolved techniques for protecting themselves from heat and insect attacks – but when both these stresses happen at once, one defense may neutralize the other.
Protected areas in Nigeria are generally hampered by limited funds and resources.
A behavioural science expert, a botanist, an environment media expert and an entomologist suggest ways to connect with nature in your garden.
Insect populations are falling as what they eat becomes more like iceberg lettuce and less like kale.
Climate change has advanced the arrival of spring by as much as several weeks in some parts of the US. This can mean major crop losses and disconnects between species that need each other to thrive.
A mass extinction 66 million years ago killed the non-bird dinosaurs, but plants survived.
Forests are remarkable at drawing carbon from the atmosphere, and they’re getting better at it. New research highlights how important it is to protect forests so they can help us fight climate change.
Plant-rich diets can help tackle the climate crisis, prevent disease and improve mental health.
New research has pinpointed the genetic boost behind one of the biggest transformations of life on Earth.
Top contributors
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Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Plant Biochemistry, University of Westminster
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Grinnell College
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Research Scientist in Biodiversity and Human Health, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in Biology, Edge Hill University
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Plant Evolutionary Biologist, The University of Edinburgh
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Research fellow, University of Aberdeen
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Palaeontologist, Rhodes University
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Edith Cowan University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, iThemba LABS
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Ph.D. Student in the School of Plant and Environmental Science, Virginia Tech
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Professor of Horticultural Sciences and Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida
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Professor, School of Science, Edith Cowan University
