A new study suggests that well-designed plant-based dietary plans could match the nutritional quality of a ...

"Plant fitness isn’t just about the plant itself — it’s about the whole community of microbes around it." Researchers unearth ...

Drylands, which include some of the world’s most arid and semi-arid ecosystems, cover nearly half of Earth’s land surface and ...

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Moss spores survived an extended stay on the outside of the ISS and remained capable of germinating once back on Earth. Their ...

Not such good news for butter lovers like myself: Seesawing research on how healthy or unhealthy butter might be received a firm push from a recent Harvard study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

More than a fifth of the Earth’s plant species are found only on islands, making them one of the largest biodiversity hotspots, a breakthrough global study has found. This conclusion has pushed the ...

Few living things seem to have less in common than plants and animals, but that assumption is being increasingly challenged. Evolution, and the ways in which the kingdom of plants and the kingdom of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Knowledge of Caribbean ethnobotany has so far been limited and little comprehensive island- or region-wide inventories of Caribbean traditional ...