Before plants evolved, vegetative life consisted of primitive green algae living in the sea. Like plants, these algae survived by performing photosynthesis, turning sunlight into energy. However, ...

Carnivorous plants look like botanical oddities, but their behavior is not a gimmick. It is a precise evolutionary solution to surviving where soil offers almost nothing.

If your garden soil turns into a brick when it’s dry or a swamp when it’s wet, the plants aren’t being dramatic—the soil is.

Upcoming events at Berkshire Botanical Garden STOCKBRIDGE – Berkshire Botanical Garden presents the following upcoming program: Friday, Feb. 13 through March 6, “Tree Care for Gardeners.” This course, ...

A couple weeks ago, I was able to attend the 79th annual conference of the Indiana Arborist Association in Noblesville. I make sure to get to the conference as regularly ...

Lurking among them is a “giant” virus, a genetic behemoth that blurs the line between the living and the inanimate. When this ...

Just like every other creature, bacteria have evolved creative ways of getting around. Sometimes this is easy, like swimming in open water, but navigating more confined spaces poses different ...

Fields of wheat, rice and corn might feel far from climate negotiations, yet they hold surprising power over the planet’s future. A new international study led by researchers at Queensland University ...

From desert soils to date palms, Prof. Ilya Gelfand tracks the gases shaping our climate, and asks why no one was looking ...

The Sahara Desert is one of the most hostile environments on the planet because it combines several physical extremes at the ...

His containment strategy helped wipe out the disease in the 1970s, one of the world’s greatest public health triumphs. He ...

Research on using Marchantia polymorpha, commonly known as liverwort, a plant closely related to moss, for food and as an ...