RBG Kew's fifth State of the World's report, published today, lays out the current condition of the world's plants and fungi globally. Based on the work of 200 international researchers and covering ...

Scientists believe the first true plants evolved from green algae around 470 million years ago. These early plants lived in ...

In the summer of 2011, paleontologist and science writer Riley Black was on a mission. Walking through the Montana desert, she was on the lookout for a Tyrannosaurus rex. But that day, she wasn’t ...

US startup Carbon Robotics has unveiled what it says is the world’s first Large Plant Model (LPM), LPM is an AI system trained on 150 million labeled plants to transform how crops are managed. The new ...

Accurately understanding the conservation status of a particular plant can help scientists leverage resources to protect the most vulnerable. Researchers at the Royal Botanical Garden, Kew in London ...

Every species, from the apex predator down to the smallest plant and fungi, plays a specific role in the ecosystem that they are native to. However, when a non-native species is introduced to an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. It might have survived the dinosaurs, but finding a partner ...

Christopher Columbus and other early European explorers were best known for the “new” lands they discovered and the people they transported. But there’s another side to the story, and it has to do ...

Structural studies of the robust material called sporopollenin reveal how it made plants hardy enough to reproduce on dry land. When Fu-Shuang Li, a biochemist and research scientist at the Whitehead ...