A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

Paper beats rock and plants eat rocks. Biosphere 2 will show how plants can eat rocks at a lecture on Saturday. A discussion of the relationship between plants and rocks serving as a source for ...

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s strangest experiments.

ORACLE, Ariz. — Plopped in the Sonoran Desert, just outside Tucson, Ariz., sits a massive, multilevel greenhouse that's probably best known as the inspiration for a Pauly Shore movie. A slick, stepped ...

We humans are a delicate bunch. We don’t have bark, boney exo-plates, or lush fur to protect us from hostile environments, so ...

A tropical rainforest biome climate is an environment found near the Earth's equator, in locations such as South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, characterized by high temperatures and high ...

Katie Field receives funding from the ERC, the NERC, and the Leverhulme Trust. Silvia Pressel receives funding from the ERC, NERC, Newton Fund. When people consider extraordinary plants, most probably ...

ORACLE, Ariz.—Opening the door to a glass pyramid, a visitor steps from the arid heat of Arizona into a coastal fog desert that stretches toward a savanna. A Lilliputian ocean laps against a rocky ...

During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...