Wet Gets Wetter, Dry Gets Drier in the Amazon Rainforest
As seasons get more extreme in the Amazon, weather patterns will shift across South America, threatening both indigenous communities and economic stability.
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The Week in Botany June 16, 2025
This week, we have primroses in the rough, plants growing tough, midnight science in the botany lab, and more.
The genetic prison that traps a ghost plant
Why would you make leaves that are all cost and no benefit? A ghost plant puzzle is solved.
The Week in Botany June 9, 2025
This week, the importance of passion in plant science, mass extinctions that aren’t, the surprising complexity of your garden and more…
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What might appear to be one network of plants and pollinators may in fact be many.
Is it time to kill the “Mass Extinction” concept?
A story popular in New Scientist at the moment questions what we know of the deep past, and it has a plant twist.
How Heliamphora turns a first date into a last meal
Researchers at Colorado State University have found the genetic basis of attraction – if you’re a carnivorous plant seeking prey.
The search for gold risks losing treasure
Amazon gold mining leaves forests unable to heal for centuries, because miners carelessly turn the landscape into a giant sieve.
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The plant whose drinking habit fooled botanists for decades, chaos inside orderly cells, and more…
The Swindle That Left Tea With a Bitter Taste
How did a fake Scottish tea plantation fool the finest hotels?
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