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Beach morning glory in Texas.

Bangladesh witnesses coastal erosion, salinization as tourism crushes a flowering creeper

Khadijatul Kobra 8 Apr 2025

Rare new Guinean flower is ‘canary in a coal mine’ — but in an actual iron mine

Ryan Truscott 27 Dec 2024
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024
Bright red flowers of a miracle clivia (Clivia mirabilis), hang in front of green foliage. Image courtesy Dave Garriock.

Poachers target South Africa’s ‘miracle’ plant with near impunity

Leonie Joubert 20 Dec 2024
1_Alpine Mountan Blue (Albulina orbitulus lobbichleri)_Mustang_susceptible(NRDB1995)_©sanejprasadsuwal

‘Scratching the surface’ of Nepal butterfly research: Interview with Sanej Suwal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 20 Nov 2024
Nakphul (Lantana camara L.),

Government inaction leaves Nepal without strategy to tackle invasive species

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Aug 2024
Dendrobium longicornu orchid flower.

It’s tough to be a wild orchid: Interview with conservation biologist Reshu Bashyal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Apr 2024
One of the six newly described chameleons from Tanzania

Photos: Top species discoveries from 2023

Liz Kimbrough 27 Dec 2023
A Theocostele alata flower.

Bangladesh orchid losses signal ecological imbalance, researchers say

Farhana Parvin 25 Jul 2023
Rafflesia flower.

Philippines research offers hope for conserving enigmatic Rafflesia plants

Mikael Angelo S. Francisco 3 Jul 2023
A park blooming with more blue camas.

Volunteers, First Nations work to bring back a disappearing oak prairie

Spoorthy Raman 19 Jun 2023

In Nepal, Chepang take up the challenge to revive their cultural keystone tree

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 May 2023

Newly described leafless orchid in Sri Lanka named after a precious yellow sapphire

Malaka Rodrigo 31 Mar 2023
Ann Dumaliang.

Saving Masungi, a last green corridor of the Philippines: Q&A with Ann Dumaliang

Jewel S. Cabrera 9 Feb 2023

Pollinator declines linked to half million early human deaths annually: Study

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2023

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022
Pleione praecox flowers.

Illegal orchid trade threatens Nepal’s ‘tigers of the plant world’

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Dec 2022
A beetle on an Inírida flower.

How a rare Colombian flower cultivated with Indigenous know-how is changing lives

Soraya Kishtwari 18 Aug 2022

The curious case of the Sri Lankan national flower that wasn’t

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Jun 2022

Newly described plant is latest fruit of Sri Lankan botanists’ collaboration

Malaka Rodrigo 10 May 2022

Warming could nip Southeast Asian forests’ mass flowering in the bud, study finds

Carolyn Cowan 21 Apr 2022

Climate crisis forecasts a fragile future for wildflowers and pollinators

Spoorthy Raman 1 Apr 2022

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021

New Philippine corpse flower is phallic-shaped, funky smelling — and nearly extinct

Keith Anthony Fabro 7 Sep 2021

A ‘sleeping beauty’ awakens to join Sri Lanka’s list of endemic plants

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Aug 2021

Brazil flower-gatherers win acclaim: ‘Efficient, long-lasting, resilient’

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 8 Feb 2021

On a Philippine mountain, researchers describe a ‘fire flower’ orchid species

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Oct 2020

New orchid species discovered in Peruvian Amazon

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2018

Saving Sumatran orchids from deforestation, one plant at a time

Sean Mowbray 12 Dec 2017
An orchid. Photo by Džoko Stach/Pixabay.

The lure of wild orchids persists in Colombia

Maximo Anderson 2 Nov 2017

Extremely rare cobra lily rediscovered in India

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Jun 2017

Smallest of giant flowers ‘accidentally’ discovered in the Philippines

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Mar 2016

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