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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Missing mangroves are root of contention over Philippine airport project

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

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

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

Illegal plant trade, tourism threaten new Philippine flowering herbs

Climate change could put tropical plant germination at risk: Study

New Guinea has the most plant species of any island

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

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

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

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

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

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

Land scarcity and disease threaten a multifaceted indigenous crop in Ethiopia

As habitat degradation threatens Amazon species, one region offers hope

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

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

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

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

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

Philippine fern efficiently absorbs arsenic, copper from toxic mining soil

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

Photos: Top 15 new species of 2019

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

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

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