Ben Nyberg stood on a knife-edge ridge along Hawaii’s Na Pali Coast, his eyes scouring the leafy recesses of the neighboring red-rock ridges. It was quiet, if not for a faint buzzing of a drone flying among flocks of curious white-tailed tropicbirds.

Amid a historic drought and a rising population, new devices and approaches can help ease the strain on water resources for agriculture.

Agri-tech company Gardin uses sensors and artificial intelligence to see how well crops are growing.

However, as counterintuitive as it sounds, alcohol has the opposite effect on plants. A recent study published in Plant & Cell Physiology shows that pre-treating soil with ethanol significantly enhances crop plants’ drought tolerance — without genetic modification. The stakes are high for climate resilience in food systems.

There's something really peculiar about ferns.

Bee populations are declining. More than half of the bat species in the United States are in severe decline or listed as endangered. And international scientists recently announced the monarch butterfly is perilously close to extinction.

Genetic tests have revealed that a seagrass meadow in WA's Shark Bay is actually a giant clone of itself, and is estimated to be at least 4,500 years old.

On The Table Read, Karen Stephenson talks to JJ Barnes about what inspired her to write her new Foraging Cookbook and the creative process behind her recipes.

Joey Santore’s YouTube channel, Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t, crosses citizen science with vigilante environmentalism

Fed up with invasive species and sterile landscapes, Douglas Tallamy urges Americans to go native and go natural

The Oldest Tree in the World by Summer Price We all know trees can live really long lives. It’s no surprise that they typically live longer than humans and everything else on the planet. Trees can live anywhere from less than 100 years to more than a few thousand years depending on the species...

Have you ever been at a sporting event or concert and had to wiggle and reposition to get in just the right spot to see the action? Maybe you needed to shift left or right to see between two people. Perhaps you even had to squat on your seat to see over the person in front of you.

Uber Eats deliveries to Mars are going to be expensive, so the first colonists of the Red Planet will need to figure out how to grow their own food locally. A new study has shown that dosing plants with symbiotic bacteria can drastically improve their growth in barren Mars-like soil.

The fossilized web of a 385-million-year-old root network has scientists reimagining what the world's first forests might once have looked like.

Sometime in our recent past, we became obsessed with planting trees. First, the goal was 1 billion new trees worldwide. Now it’s 1 trillion by the year 2030. Trees offer all kinds of benefits, from absorbing climate-warming emissions to providing refuge for animals, and we’re losing them at a blistering pace. But in our push to restock the world’s forests, we’ve largely ignored — and in some cases harmed — another important ecosystem that offers a similar set of benefits: grasslands.

Using genetic engineering and synthetic biology, we can introduce new biochemical pathways into plant cells, turning them into single-use bioreactors.

Indian scientists have discovered a new plant species in India's Andamans archipelago. Biologists found a marine green algae during a trip to the island in 2019. Identification is laborious, and it took the scientists nearly two years to confirm that the species had been discovered for the first time. Scientists say this the first discovery of a species of algae in the islands in nearly four decades.

When plants started growing on land, they changed the world. Ancient fossil spores hint at how and when they did it.

A plant that grows in bogs along the west coast of North America has been spotted using its flowers to eat insects – until now, researchers had no idea it was carnivorous

Did you know that plants, like humans, have an ‘internal clock’?