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08-17-2019

Common Types of Backyard Mushrooms

Backyards are quite lovely. They can be so many different...

08-16-2019

Florida Plant Identification for Beginners

Florida is a state teeming with biodiversity. With the nickname...

08-14-2019

Why Do People Love the Rose Flower

The rose flower: poets write of it, lovers smell bouquets,...

08-07-2019

What Is Subsistence Farming?

Subsistence farming, or subsistence agriculture, is when a farmer grows...

08-03-2019

Most Popular Edible Flowers (And How to Eat Them)

Imagine, 75% of the calories consumed by humans come from...

07-31-2019

How To Start Mushroom Farming

Mushrooms are an endlessly fascinating organism on planet earth. Defined...

07-27-2019

Hawaiian Flower Identification for Beginners

Hawaii is a fascinating place for all kinds of biology....

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07-26-2019

How to Identify the 10 Most Common Fruit Plants

Most people can easily tell apart apples from bananas, and...

07-04-2019

How To Plan and Start Growing an Herb Garden

Diving into the world of herbs is fascinating. Herbs can...

Dr. Maria Ermakova holds a Setaria plant that has been transformed to boost photosynthesis. Triggering production of a specific protein can increase the process plants use to create their own food. (Image credit: Natalia Bateman, ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis)

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08-18-2019

Researchers discover how to boost photosynthesis

An international team of researchers based in Australia have struck upon a discovery that could...

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Colombia has declared a national emergency after a destructive fungus was found in the soil that could ultimately wipe out most large banana farms, leading to major shortages.

08-16-2019 Plants

The world’s most popular banana is now at risk of disappearing

Colombia has declared a national emergency after a destructive fungus...

Researchers from the University of Bristol have found that taking advantage of a plant’s circadian rhythm could help reduce the amount of herbicide needed for spraying crops.

08-16-2019 Plants

A plant’s biological clock could set the time for crop spraying

Like humans, plants run on an internal clock that helps...

Researchers at the University of York have discovered that climate change is disrupting local plant diversity.

08-15-2019 Plants

Local plant diversity has been disrupted by climate change, research shows

Researchers at the University of York have discovered that climate...

Scientists have long speculated that trees and plants will eventually reach a breaking point where they can no longer remove CO2 from the air.

08-12-2019 Environment

How much longer will trees continue to absorb carbon dioxide?

Trees play an important role in keeping the air clean...

New research shows how large-scale tree death, mainly caused by fires, harvesting, windstorms, and insect outbreaks, has impacted the world’s carbon stocks.

08-12-2019 Environment

Large-scale tree death has major impact on carbon storage

New research from the Institute for Forest Research (BIFoR) at...

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Bioenergy projects alone won't rein in climate change, according to a new special report from the United Nations.

08-11-2019 Lifestyle

UN: Bioenergy projects won’t solve climate change

As record heat waves and ice melt continue around the...

The fossil forest, located near Xinhang in China's Anhui province, is the earliest example of a forest in Asia ever found.

08-09-2019 Science

The oldest fossil forest has been discovered in Asia

A team of researchers from China’s Peking University and Linyi...

The planet stands to lose one million species in the so-called 6th mass extinction. But if we think and act big, humanity has the tools to avert catastrophe.

08-09-2019 Environment

The extinction crisis looks apocalyptic — but there are solutions

This spring, a UN study put a startling number to...

A new study may completely change how some parts of the fossil record are interpreted, particularly a group of early terrestrial plants.

08-08-2019 Plants

New research sheds light on early plant-fungal relationships

A new study from the Field Museum may completely change...

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Fossils discovered in Brazil belonged to a newly discovered ancient reptile species, researchers say.

08-18-2019 Animals

Fossils found in Brazil were from ancient reptile species

At least 228 million years ago, an ancient reptile species...

A new DNA study hints that modern humans may have played a role in the extinction of cave bears in prehistoric Europe.

08-18-2019 Animals

In prehistoric Europe, cave bears lost out to invading humans

Enormous cave bears roamed throughout prehistoric Europe for more than...

For cats, eating grass is a behavior held over from earlier generations, according to a new study.

08-17-2019 Animals

Why do cats eat grass if it makes them sick?

For cats, eating grass is a behavior held over from...

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