A new study suggests that the loss of plant species due to climate change and human activities could release vast amounts of stored carbon into the atmosphere, potentially accelerating climate change.

The Monterey Bay Area Cactus and Succulent Society recently held its holiday party. Society members create this annual event, ...

Water is a scarce resource in many of the Earth's ecosystems. This scarcity is likely to increase in the course of climate change. This, in turn, might lead to a considerable decline in plant ...

Researchers from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences synthesize current understanding of how climate ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population, but the tiny microbes living on and around rice plants may be just as ...

Globally, soils contain three times as much carbon as exists in the atmosphere and all plants, combined. Which means that understanding how soil microbes recycle organic materials—sometimes sending CO ...

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

It's one of the oldest questions tackled by naturalists: Why do tropical regions have so much biodiversity compared with other areas of the globe? "The nearer we approach the tropics, the greater the ...

Az Klymiuk (University of Manitoba) receives/has received funding from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC-CRSNG), the TAWANI Foundation (through the Field Museum of ...

Tucked away beside the main road that runs along Eleuthera, a narrow island in the Bahamas, the Leon Levy Native Plant ...