Darwin Day is coming and you can be part of it
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Alun Salt
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Can a salad taste you back?
Normally when a headline asks a stupid question the answer is ‘no’, but new research suggests a better answer is ‘maybe’.
It’s World Wetland Day
Today, lakes, rivers, underground aquifers, swamps, marshes, wet grasslands, peatlands, oases, estuaries, deltas, tidal flats, mangroves, coral reefs, as well as fish ponds, rice paddies, reservoirs and salt pans and, as the rain hammers down, also my garden, celebrate World Wetlands Day today.
Winterwatch returns but does wildlife TV matter?
A popular BBC perennial returns for a week on UK TV screens. But will it do anything beyond providing some nature-themed light entertainment?
Conservation in the City
A new article argues that conservation shouldn’t be left to the countryside. There are major impacts to be made looking at pollinators in the city.
Getting out in the sun can lead to better sex
What could make sex better for a plant? When it brings in new genes from other plants. And this is what happens when faba beans get heat stress.
Why did trees start growing up? (or did they just start growing down?)
Today trees reach for the light. However, a recent article says that back in the Devonian period, plants played by different rules.
A bookmarklet for looking up species in the Encyclopaedia of Life
Want to look up species in the Encyclopaedia of Life a little faster? We have a tool for that.
In an oft-overlooked part of Brazil, botanists have found something bizarre growing
In the Pantanal it’s possible that botanists have found a plant that taking it’s first steps – upwards.
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