As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

The photo of a courageous mother lemur with a baby on her back, taking a harrowing jump in a ravine, won the California ...

A new study challenges recent claims about dramatic "greening" in Antarctica and how this conflicts with decades of field-based ecological knowledge. The new opinion article, "Is Antarctica Greening?" ...

A global effort to create a "microbial Noah's Ark" to preserve the world's diverse collection of healthy microbes before they ...

Discover how adaptogen tea could transform your stress response system. Learn about ashwagandha, rhodiola, and other herbs ...

Since 2008, 1.3 million seed varieties from 128 countries have been deposited in the global seed vault, located in Norway's ...

Arctic peatlands are expanding as the climate warms, new research showed Thursday, a change that could slow global heating in ...

Fifteen years after Daniel Hinkley collected ripe seed in Vietnam, Seattle sees a Rhodoleia parvipetala bloom for the first time in North America.

The Arctic tundra is characterized by its layer of permafrost or permanently frozen subsoil that contains mostly gravel and nutrient-poor soil. This prevents plants with deep root systems from ...

“And then we can think all the way down to insects in the system … like bumblebees which need those flowering plants to get nectar,” she said. “And if you lose the flowering plants from these ...

With the Arctic warming faster than the global average, researchers at UBC and the University of Edinburgh have made an important discovery about tundra plants and how they are adapting faster ...

Understanding the drivers of extensive plant damage in boreal and Arctic ecosystems: Insights from field surveys in the aftermath of damage. Science of The Total Environment, 599-600, 1965-1976 ...