What 17,000 Pressed Flowers Revealed About Arctic Climate Change
The brief Arctic summer is getting briefer. Research using herbaria shows that flowering times are shifting. Not all plants are responding the same way & that’s a problem.
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A rare plant with a taste for toxic soil is getting some help from unexpected allies with green fingers
Czech gardeners helped protect an endangered flower from extinction using their backyards. The simple trick could aid plant conservation worldwide.
The Surprising Way Plants Really Sense Heat
The sweet molecules plants make during photosynthesis double as sophisticated thermometers, revealing a hidden layer of plant environmental sensing.
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 hidden complexity of pollinator networks in gardens
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.
The Swindle That Left Tea With a Bitter Taste
How did a fake Scottish tea plantation fool the finest hotels?
How do plants respond to hormone signals instead of cellular noise
You might expect the instructions a cell receives to make a flower to be precise, but the response to those instructions isn’t.
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