The North Carolina Zoo has joined a handful of botanical gardens in the United States to be accredited by Botanic Gardens ...

With new funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, scientists in Montana State University’s Department of Plant ...

Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone ...

That's where Hypenea macrantha enters the picture. A Hypenea macrantha flower in the wild, with its catapult visible at the bottom It's a flowering plant endemic to Brazil, which was already known ...

The farm's director says your old pumpkins can go towards feeding animals and preventing greenhouse gases. MONMOUTH, Ill. — What looks like a grave yard of pumpkins is actually an all you can eat ...

Botanists usually build high-quality maps of species by painstakingly listing all plant species in an area ... assistant professor of integrative biology, first author Lauren Gillespie, a doctoral ...

Montana State University received over $900,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study an agricultural weed causing problems for Montana farmers.

They measure the diameter of trees on campus, take water samples from a local creek to analyze them and examine small areas ...

A Newfoundland biologist with a specialty in mystery blobs that wash up on the island’s shores is hoping to get his hands on ...

The Iowa-based ice cream and frozen dessert manufacturer that is undertaking a $175 million expansion in Dunkirk is asking ...

Climbing, swimming and crawling, rare-plant hunters know no bounds when it comes to tracking down the botanical equivalent of the Holy Grail, says Peter Marren ...

Kerby is a trained ecologist, geographer and photographer whose career has largely been centered on a quest to understand nature’s patterns and sharing his discoveries. Phenology, or the seasonal ...