Rising carbon dioxide levels in the air are making plants grow larger and faster, but diluting their nutritional content.

These fascinating organisms play a crucial role in ecosystems by breaking down dead material, recycling nutrients, and supporting plant life. Mushrooms are fungi, not plants or animals ...

All food and most medicines come directly from plants and animals. Species also form the building blocks of ecosystems, which purify air and water, pollinate crops, cycle nutrients, moderate climate ...

Some non-native species (plants, animals, microbes, and fungi not originally from a given area) threaten our forests, croplands, lakes, and other ecosystems. Introduced species, such as the kudzu vine ...