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08-21-2019

15 Healing Herbs You Can Grow At Home

Plants have been on the planet for just under 500...

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...

08-09-2019

How to Be Smart While Foraging for Food

Foraging is a fun way to gather your own food...

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...

A team of scientists has developed a new method which may ultimately make it easier to immunize plants for protection against viruses.

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08-21-2019

A new method for protecting plants from viral infections

A team of scientists led by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) has developed a new...

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By the time that symptoms of the lethal bacterial infection appear, it is too late to save crops from the lethal damage of citrus greening.

08-19-2019 Plants

Scientists are one step closer to developing treatments for citrus greening

For decades, Professor Sharon Long has studied the symbiotic relationships...

According to a new study, land vegetation has become much less productive over the past two decades due to a lack of water in the atmosphere.

08-19-2019 Environment

A lack of moisture in the air will intensify the effects of climate change

According to a new study from Peking University, land vegetation...

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)

08-18-2019 Plants

Researchers discover how to boost photosynthesis

An international team of researchers based in Australia have struck...

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...

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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...

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...

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Perhaps humans can learn a bit about zoonotic disease as well as dehumanizing hysteria by looking at the history of leprosy in the new world.

08-22-2019 Animals

The strange story of armadillos and leprosy in the Americas

Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s Disease, was once feared to...

Research shows that the fecal inoculations actually changed the koalas’ microbiomes and allowed them to eat messmate.

08-22-2019 Animals

How fecal inoculations could help save koalas

Just a few years ago, there was a significant decline...

A new study has revealed that Asian tiger mosquitoes are adapting to colder winters and pushing the limits of their northern range by using their eggs as ‘time capsules.’

08-21-2019 Animals

Tiger mosquitoes may be quickly adapting to colder climates

A new study has revealed that Asian tiger mosquitoes are...

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