In a recent article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Qianshi Lin from the University of British Columbia in Canada and colleagues report finding a new lineage of ...

Most home gardeners pottering around with trowel, plant cuttings and a bag of mulch behind the old homestead don’t think of themselves as “nature’s best and last hope.” Doug Tallamy, an entomologist ...

For centuries, humans have moved plants beyond their native habitats, but the global spread of economically useful plants has quietly shaped ecosystems in powerful ways. A sweeping international study ...

Naturalized alien plants are causing a worldwide decline in the uniqueness of regional floras, according to the results of a global research project. When alien plants integrate into an existing ...

Introduced species have a bad rap. From American grey squirrels displacing European red ones, to Japanese knotweed displacing just about everything everywhere, their purported negative effects on ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

Since mineral ores tend to harbour seeds from the local plants, our aim was to study the non-native plants collected in Chinese ports to understand the influence of global ore trade on biological ...

VR studio and label Creature announced Starship Home, a plant-filled mixed reality adventure that turns your living room into a spacecraft on a mission to save alien flora. Coming exclusively to Quest ...