Scientists have uncovered how sundews, Charles Darwin's favorite plant, become more carnivorous in certain habitats.

Bengaluru: British botanist and explorer JD Hooker wrote to his contemporary of naturalist-biologist Charles Darwin and told him impatiens (touch-me-n.

A research team from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) studied the global variability ...

Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan pushes back against ‘misunderstandings’ over facility opening this year.

A meta-analysis of biodiversity effects on plant productivity found that complementarity effects increased over time whereas selection effects decreased, and both remained consistent across global ...

Discover how wild plants could become resilient crops for a warming world, unlocking new potential for food security.

"My first reaction was disbelief until I checked the photos and videos of the remains," said ecologist Adbullah Nagy.

We are at the tipping point in ecology where we can continue to hold the wool over our eyes, or we can be the heroes our ...

Scientists explored the evolutionary success of leaf beetles, the most diverse herbivores on Earth. They showed that symbioses with bacteria have evolved repeatedly and independently in different ...

Researchers have proposed that some wild plant species possess certain attributes which make them more suitable for human cultivation than others.

Jill Pollok, Brian Kunkel and UD undergraduate students team up to stay ahead of invasive species throughout Delaware ...