Plants

New data shows that plant cover has extended further up the Himalayas, a change that is likely to impact the millions of people who live downstream.

Previous research has shown that plants respond to stress by producing several visual, chemical and tactile clues.

Invasive species are now a "huge" issue in national parks and the problem is "far, far worse now" than it was twenty years ago, researchers say.

Scientists carried out the study after seeing exaggerated claims about the purifying powers of plants online.

Plant-based diets are on the rise across the United States, with millennials as the driving force behind the upward trend, experts say.

"Our review highlighted a cause for concern with high consumption of dairy products," said the co-author of the study.

The latest results could have significant implications for our understanding of how the planet will adapt to climate change.

Plant extinctions endanger other organisms, ecosystems and the ability of humans to survive on our planet.

Researchers have worked out how the plant is able to absorb high quantities of the substance without dying.

"This study further confirms what we have long feared. Climate change impacts like drought are already eroding the natural sinks for carbon around the world," commented one expert.

Found across the globe, sand flies are blood-sucking insects that can spread dangerous diseases much like mosquitoes.

Study does not advise introducing alien species, but findings will help in planning conservation strategies for the future.

What happens to plants in this region could have important consequences for the rest of the planet.

"For the last 30 to 40 years we have just chosen at the public level not to adequately maintain our infrastructure."

"Oh my gosh. What is happening?"

The world of flora has long been a source of cancer-fighting therapies. The drug paclitaxel, for example, originally came from the Pacific yew tree.

A local hunter said the cost was "ridiculous" and that he would have done it for free.

"Giant hogweed makes poison ivy look like a walk in the park," officials warned.

Scientists hope their work highlights the disproportionately dominant role humans play on Earth.

It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, even for plants.

Cataloguing the genetic data of 1.5 million known species will take 10 years, cost approximately $4.7 billion and require the cooperation of scientists, governments and students from around the world.

Earth Day 2018 is focused on a multi-year campaign to end plastic pollution.

The latest minibox in "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links" is Rampage of the Forest. Here's every card in the upcoming set.

"Fairy Lanterns" don't photosynthesize, but instead get their nutrients from fungi.

The advent of land plants changed the planet forever.

Cacao plants are one of many that face extinction as climate change alters the environment.

Scientists were able to grow plants so quickly that one colleague couldn't believe it.

Imagine plants used as streetlights, illuminating work spaces and as desk lamps.

Plants are very sensitive to environmental changes. The military wants to read their responses.

The earliest preserved blossoms date back some 130 million years ago, which was 10 million years after the ancestor of all flowering plants lived.