The sundew plant uses sticky tentacles to attract unsuspecting insects looking for water. When an insect lands, the tentacles curl around it, mimicking the actions of an animal capturing prey.

For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Brazilian rainforest have been using medicinal plants. But this knowledge is in danger of disappearing. The deforestation of the Brazilianrainforest ...

The Amazon Rainforest, where next year’s COP30 climate summit will be hosted, is reeling from two consecutive years of severe drought, with major rivers at record lows, leading to water shortages and ...

Apparently, moths feel the same way about plants. When some plants are dehydrated or under some other form of stress, they cry a mournful melody made of ultrasonic clicks. Some moths are able to ...

It's how the cape sundew traps and devours its prey. The leaves can even curl inward to capture larger bugs. Place the killer plant on the kitchen windowsill, front porch, or balcony to help keep ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that's a critical counterweight to climate change. A warming climate ...

If you’re a female moth, finding the best plant to host your young may be as simple as taking a close listen. When low on water, some plants make high-pitched clicking noises, inaudible to humans.

they’re actually among the easiest carnivorous plants to grow. Indigenous to South Africa, the Cape sundew is a favorite of carnivorous plant aficionados the world over. Not only do they grow ...

How much rainforest is still in good condition and able to sustain the Daintree’s cassowaries and tree kangaroos, the Amazon’s sloths and anacondas and the Congo Basin’s forest elephants ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change.

By Jancee Dunn I was on the phone with a friend the other day, and because I can’t sit still, I started to dust the leaves on my sprawling bird of paradise plant. This is nice, I thought ...

You’re engulfed in waves of steam and sweating buckets and there’s no cool water anywhere,” Kenneth Feeley, a professor at ...