Plants News

RSS
551 stories
Intact rainforest in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Building a global inventory of plants: Q&A with botanist Patrick Weigelt

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Jul 2019

Making room for wild foods in forest conservation

Sarah Sax 22 Jul 2019

From over 100,000 species assessments in IUCN update, zero improvements

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Jul 2019

Newly described tree species from Tanzania is likely endangered

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2019

More than 10,000 animals and plants seized in massive global operation

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2019

Are plants conscious? The debate rages on

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Jul 2019

Nearly 600 plant species have gone extinct in last 250 years

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2019

‘You don’t find orchids; they find you’: Q&A with botanist Edicson Parra

Gianluca Cerullo 6 Jun 2019

Study reveals a fragile web of knowledge linking plants to people

Liz Kimbrough 4 Jun 2019
Students of Bole Gerji Primary and Secondary school in Addis Ababa planting trees that they received from the botanical garden as part of its ‘Model Gardening’ Project. Image courtesy Gullele Botanical Garden.

In Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa, Gullele Botanical Garden captivates city dwellers

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 3 Jun 2019

Earth’s hidden tree-microbe network mapped for the first time ever

Shreya Dasgupta 27 May 2019

Plants are working hard to keep pace with increasing carbon dioxide

Shreya Dasgupta 23 May 2019

Ñembi Guasu: Huge new conservation area in Bolivia’s Gran Chaco

Yvette Sierra Praeli 23 May 2019

How climate change could throw Māori culture off-balance

Ashley Stumvoll 23 May 2019

At 2,624 years, a bald cypress is oldest known living tree in eastern North America

Mongabay.com 16 May 2019

Hunting for rare plants in inaccessible spots: Q&A with drone pilot Ben Nyberg

Shreya Dasgupta 13 May 2019

‘To save a forest you have to destroy a nicer one’: U.S. Marines target forest in Guam

Nina Finley 8 May 2019

Drone rediscovers Hawaiian flower thought to be extinct

Mongabay.com 1 May 2019

Invasive plants a fast-growing threat to India’s rhinos

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 18 Mar 2019

Freshwater fishes and other threatened but overlooked biodiversity must be new flagships for conservation (commentary)

Mike Baltzer 12 Mar 2019

In the Solomon Islands, making amends in the name of conservation

John Cannon 19 Feb 2019

Grasshoppers: They come, they eat, they … pollinate?

Ashley Stumvoll 13 Feb 2019

Indigenous communities in post-FARC Colombia struggle to destigmatize sacred coca leaf

Margaux Maxwell 23 Jan 2019

Termites help to protect tropical forests during drought, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Jan 2019

Machine learning tool helps prioritize plants for conservation

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Jan 2019

Photos: Top 10 new species of 2018

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Dec 2018
Wild orchids still attached to tree branches, for sale in a street market in China. Photo courtesy Amy Hinsley.

Social media, e-commerce sites facilitate illegal orchid trade

Stephanie Parker 21 Dec 2018

More than one-third of critically endangered plants cannot be conserved in seed banks

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2018

Invisible plant-enemy interactions drive diversity in forest fragments

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2018

Fire fundamentally alters carbon dynamics in the Amazon

John Cannon 12 Oct 2018

New tree species from Cameroon is possibly already extinct

Mongabay.com 3 Oct 2018

Runners’ woes at Asian Games highlight Jakarta’s air pollution problem

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2018

you're currently offline