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What did Darwin think was his most satisfying scientific work? It might not be what you thought.

Anyone can celebrate Darwin Day and promote science, without even leaving the house.

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.

Mike Jackson, former Chief Editor of Annals of Botany and AoB PLANTS has taken a look back at the past 125 of Annals of Botany, and found some tips for the future along the way.

A popular BBC perennial returns for a week on UK TV screens. But will it do anything beyond providing some nature-themed light entertainment?

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.

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.

Today trees reach for the light. However, a recent article says that back in the Devonian period, plants played by different rules.

Want to look up species in the Encyclopaedia of Life a little faster? We have a tool for that.