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Botanist Steve Jones at the US Botanic Garden with a corpse flower bloom Devin Dotson/US Botanic Garden The following is an extract from our nature newsletter...
GARY, Ind.—It has been a bittersweet homecoming for Maya Etienne. Her affection for her birthplace runs deep—despite the decline of the city’s once-robust steel-manufacturing industry. The...
We are using more than our fair share Charlie Rogers/Getty Images Humans are now consuming over a quarter of the biomass produced each year by plants...
There may be a new way to capture carbon emissions from industrial facilities kamilpetran/Shutterstock Carbon capture systems could become less expensive and more compact by using...
Leaves on rainforest trees could die if they get too hot Ghislain & Marie David de Lossy/Getty Images A tiny proportion of leaves in the canopies...
Tatiana Buzmakova/shutterstock ONE of my favourite old-school gardening beliefs, which recently resurfaced with the explosion of interest in houseplants, is that it is inadvisable – even...
Dog sledding is a popular activity for tourists on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago Stuart Thomson/Alamy Dogs that pull sleds for tourists in Svalbard are helping to make...
Firefighters attempting to extinguish a forest fire on 9 August in Inner Mongolia, China Zhang Meng/VCG via Getty Images Earlier plant growth, linked to rising global...
When Hawaii’s last sugar cane plantation shut down in Maui in 2016, it marked the end of an era when sugar reigned supreme in the archipelago’s...
Tāne Mahuta, a kauri tree named for the Māori god of forests imageBROKER/Alamy The following is an extract from our nature newsletter Wild Wild Life. Sign up...