A study published in the journal Nature Plants has unveiled new perspectives on the evolution of flowering plants.

The enduring mission to conserve and grow native plant communities distinguishes them from most botanic gardens, which often extract exotic plants from other parts of the world ...

Plant reproduction is a cornerstone of our food system and ecological balance; however, it is a complex process. Plants have ...

Every year, the Western monarch butterfly population undertakes an epic migration that spans 11 states in the region. About half that acreage is public land, but a new analysis has found that the ...

The Grand Canyon reveals new insights into Earth's Cambrian Explosion and rapid marine biodiversity evolution.

In a new study, Omaya Dudin's group at EPFL, Gautam Dey and Yannick Schwab's team at EMBL Heidelberg investigated this phenomenon in the Ichthyosporea, a group of marine protists that are closely ...

Several of SANBI’s NBGs—Free State, Harold Porter, Karoo Desert, Kirstenbosch, Lowveld, KwaZulu-Natal, Kwelera, Pretoria and Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens are classified as conservation ...

Mettler’s Woods, one of the state’s last remaining virgin forests that sits in a 65-acre patch of land owned and managed by ...

The climate is changing, science shows. And according to some estimates, it could create anywhere between 200 million and 1.2 ...

The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

The original Trigun anime and manga managed to pass me by in my youth, despite the perfect timing and appeal of the property. I caught a stray episode or two when it aired on Toonami back in the day, ...

Migratory species like the monarch butterfly present unique conservation challenges. Their populations face myriad threats across different geographic areas, often far removed from each other. As ...