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Though you might not think so to look at them, plants have a busy day.
Green buildings can cost more than conventional structures, but the small increase has noticeable benefits for those working and living within them.
Maidenhair trees, Ginkgo biloba, can live for over 1,000 years and grow 35m tall. While they’re beautiful to look at, they’re also notorious for their vomit-smelling seeds.
Plants need light to feed themselves, so they grow in ways that help them collect as much of it as they can. Sometimes that’s straight up, but not always.
David Attenborough’s new BBC documentary The Green Planet shows plants are stranger than they first appear.
The future of Christmas food could include artificial meat, soil-free veg and hybrid protein treats.
This evergreen plant has some tricky ways to get ahead, but it’s a valuable part of the ecosystem.
Tree sunburn tends to occur during hot spring days or in early summer, when trees are full of moisture. So why does it happen? And which trees are most vulnerable?
Menus that are three-quarters vegetarian help meat eaters choose more climate-friendly options, a tactic that restaurants could use to help fight climate change.
This hardy desert plant lives in the hostile Atacama Desert in Chile by sucking moisture out of passing fog. As water resources become ever more scarce, humans could follow suit.
Many living organisms generate and even detect static electricity in their natural environments. We must understand more to ensure we don’t disturb these delicate processes.
Plants support human health not only in terms of providing food, oxygen and shade. Our relationships with plants facilitate political decisions and actions that support health in the city.
Spring has settled in and fruit is starting to ripen. Read this before you start helping yourself to the edible plants growing in your neighbourhood.
The phenomenon is called heliotropism, and sunflowers are most famous for it. But why do they track the sun? And how?
An extract of a plant’s fruit in Nigeria could protect against seizure and prevent brain degeneration. It could therefore be studied further for the development of a new antiepileptic drug.
New research shows how the Montreal Protocol protected vegetation, helping keep carbon out of the atmosphere.
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The diverse plant collections in botanical gardens increase the chance of pests and pathogens encountering suitable hosts and becoming invasive.
When plants started growing on land, they changed the world. Ancient fossil spores hint at how and when they did it.
Traditional herbal medicines and cosmetics remain popular in South Africa especially in rural areas where they are part of people’s culture.
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Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Fellow in Plant Biochemistry, University of Westminster
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Associate Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange - Reader in Plant Science, Edge Hill University
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Assistant Professor of Plant Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee
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Glasstone Research Fellow, Plant Science, University of Oxford
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Research Scientist in Biodiversity and Human Health, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor in Entomology, University of Sydney
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Lecturer and Researcher in Plant Humanities, UNSW
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Plant Evolutionary Biologist, University of Edinburgh
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Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, University of Reading
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Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Grinnell College
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Senior Lecturer in Horticulture, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor in Biophysics, University of Pretoria
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PhD, University of Tasmania