Mounds of sand dug out by birds are hot spots for plants in Peru’s Atacama Desert, possibly providing a sheltered and moist area for seed germination.
As pristine habitats shrink worldwide, a massive, 18-year experiment suggests that linking up what's left with natural corridors could help ecosystems retain plant diversity.
A tumbleweed is just a maternal plant corpse giving her living seeds a chance at a good life somewhere new.
In ‘The Nature of Life and Death,’ botanist Patricia Wiltshire recounts some of her most memorable cases.
The rise of the field of “plant neurobiology” has this scientist and his colleagues pushing back.
Earth has nearly a billion hectares suitable for new forests to start trapping carbon, a study finds.
The new book ‘Slime’ makes the case that algae deserve to be celebrated.
A “surface tension catapult” can fling dewdrops carrying fungal spores from water-repellent leaves.
Cannabis may have been altering minds at an ancient high-altitude cemetery, researchers say
New views show how fungi shift their stores of phosphorus toward more favorable markets where the nutrient is scarce.