A research team at Simon Fraser University has developed an AI-powered robot that can autonomously water plants and monitor plant health.
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Plants seem to know when the longest day of the year is.
The plants chimpanzees use to treat their wounds have been found to have medicinal properties.
Some say Latin names are elitist and incomprehensible, but they started out as a way to be inclusive.
Hedges and trees may actually reduce home exposure to radiant heat and flying embers, but they must be well maintained. Two scientists who study how plants burn explain.
A new publication sheds light on the plants of Burkina Faso and Mali.
Here’s why those little yellow flowers are everywhere you look.
Fast-rising temperatures can change how plants and animals behave and disrupt the delicate timing of pollination.
A landscape historian explains how a Victorian tradition became a tool for social change in 19th- and 20th-century Philadelphia.
Many of us form highly meaningful connections with our leafy companions – including mourning a plant when it dies.
Most of Australia’s plants rely on a hidden underground network of fungi for water and minerals. They could be in trouble – but we don’t have the data to know.
Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – and how it may change in future climates.
Can we turn a global killer into a global healer?
Without swift and effective action, composting may become an environmental crisis, rather than a solution.
A deep dive into Earth’s distant past shows how life on land struggled to recover long after the worst warming event of all time.
Australia’s environment is brutal. If you don’t already know what you’re looking for, it can be easy to miss these seemingly unremarkable species.
How stress leaves its mark on plants.
Madagascar tops the list globally in terms of the percentage of plant species endemic to a single island.
Organic soils, one of the pillars of Québec’s food self-sufficiency, could disappear within 50 years. Fortunately, the application of straw or wood chips could regenerate these soils.
A biologist explains what to focus on if you’re designing a garden with pollinators in mind − and what you don’t need to worry about.
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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