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Podcast: Lemur love and award-winning plant passion in Madagascar

Mike Gaworecki 11 Nov 2020
Victoria amazonica. © Sir Ghillean Prance

Amazon botanist Sir Ghillean Prance: ‘The environmental crisis is a moral one’

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Oct 2020

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

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Oct 2020

When roads cross wilderness areas, plant pathogens can hitch a ride

Ian Morse 2 Oct 2020

A Philippine tribe’s plant-based medical tradition gets its moment

Bong S. Sarmiento 2 Oct 2020
Mycena haematopus (Burgundydrop Bonnet)

World’s plants and fungi a frontier of discovery, if we can protect them: Report

Liz Kimbrough 1 Oct 2020

Fires turn sage brush habitat in Washington into a scorched ‘oblivion’

Ashley Ahearn 18 Sep 2020

Missing mangroves are root of contention over Philippine airport project

Leilani Chavez, Susan Claire Agbayani 17 Sep 2020
Cacao pod in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Latin America has twice the plant life of Africa, SE Asia

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2020

Lockdown should have cleared up Jakarta’s air. Coal plants kept it dirty

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Aug 2020
a tree fern savanna in the Cromwell Mountains of Papua New Guinea courtesy of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Study revealing New Guinea’s plant life ‘first step’ toward protection

John Cannon 25 Aug 2020

Illegal plant trade, tourism threaten new Philippine flowering herbs

Keith Anthony Fabro 13 Aug 2020

Climate change could put tropical plant germination at risk: Study

Claire Asher 12 Aug 2020
This local guide located a Rhododendron in bloom in the Cromwell Mountains of Papua New Guinea. Credit RBG Kew

New Guinea has the most plant species of any island

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2020

Amazonia’s people domesticated crops on ‘forest islands’ 10,000 years ago: Study

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jul 2020

In Sri Lanka, a South American flower usurps a tree sacred to Buddhists and Hindus

Malaka Rodrigo 27 Jul 2020

‘In the plantations there is hunger and loneliness’: The cultural dimensions of food insecurity in Papua (commentary)

Sophie Chao 14 Jul 2020

38 endangered Brazilian tree species legally traded, poorly tracked: Study

Jenny Gonzales 18 Jun 2020

From a Philippine conflict hotspot, a new insect-eating plant emerges

Elizabeth Fitt 17 Jun 2020
Elephant digging at a baobab tree in Mapungubwe National Park, South Africa, to get to the moisture-rich interior. Since at least 2015, there has been a prolonged drought across Southern Africa. Image by Nathalie Bertrams for Mongabay.

They survived centuries of elephant onslaught. Now climate change is killing these iconic baobabs

Tristen Taylor and Nathalie Bertrams 29 May 2020

Land scarcity and disease threaten a multifaceted indigenous crop in Ethiopia

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 19 May 2020

As habitat degradation threatens Amazon species, one region offers hope

Taran Volckhausen 14 May 2020

From a Sri Lankan rainforest, a new species of orchid blooms

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 1 May 2020

In Sri Lanka, beguiling bloom of cat’s claw vine conceals potential trouble (commentary)

Jagath Gunawardana 26 Mar 2020

Impending Amazon tipping point puts biome and world at risk, scientists warn

Shanna Hanbury 27 Jan 2020

Mass tree planting along India’s Cauvery River has scientists worried

Nanditha Chandraprakash 22 Jan 2020

Cost-effective conservation: Study identifies key ‘umbrella’ species

John Cannon 14 Jan 2020

Philippine fern efficiently absorbs arsenic, copper from toxic mining soil

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2020

Rare plant species are especially vulnerable to climate change, and rarity is more common than previously understood

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2020

Photos: Top 15 new species of 2019

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Dec 2019

Bringing back extinct plants to life: Q&A with ‘plant messiah’ Carlos Magdalena

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Nov 2019

Amazonian tree with human-sized leaves finally gets ID’d as new species

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Nov 2019

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