Forests absorb planet-warming pollution, but world leaders shouldn’t include them in plans to reach net-zero greenhouse gas ...

Climate change is a persistent and growing challenge to plant life on our planet. Changes to the environment that plants are ...

Microfluidic technology has become increasingly important in many scientific fields, such as regenerative medicine, ...

A rare native plant is making a remarkable comeback at Stanford’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve following the site’s first intentional burns in over half a century. The species, commonly known as ...

Forests of native trees and plants once blanketed the Western Ghats mountains in southern India, but nearly 200 years ago, ...

The tree disease that exploded in Bay Area forests three decades ago, stunning residents with vast die-offs in parks and neighborhoods before slowing, has opened a new front with a second, potentially ...

They’re typically recognized by their characteristic white, powdery blotches on infected plants’ stems, leaf surfaces, and fruits. The patches are an accumulation of white—and sometimes gray—fungal ...

Photo Credit: Oman9978 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 Lemonade berry grows as either a shrub or small tree, with more upright and tree-like growth inland and more low, sprawling growth in coastal ...

During each growing season, trees, for example, add another layer of wood to the trunk, called an annual ring, which increases the trunk’s diameter. When a tree is cut down, we can count the ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed ...

This gorgeous low-maintenance shrub begins blooming in autumn, a time when only sasanqua camellias traditionally flower! The stunning rose-pink, double blossoms continue to open through the winter ...