Streetlamps create an artificial summer for urban trees
The long days of summer are stretching into winter, with LED street lights replacing the retreating sun.
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Your lawn can identify the traces of vehicle pollution
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Cambridge researchers have shown that plants can regulate the chemistry of their petal surface to create iridescent signals visible to bees.
The future of sweet corn turns sour
Heat during flowering damages the kernels before they develop.
In Madagascar, the lemurs need the trees, and the trees need the lemurs
Hikori Sato explains why a living forest isn’t just a collection of trees.
Learn how to look at Lichen
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Plants remember how much warmer than usual it was last year
Stress memories using epigenetics are helping plants adapt to climate change.
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