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Richmond Mayor Danny Avula announced more details will soon be available following the release of a preliminary action report ...

Around the world, there are thousands of edible plant species—but you wouldn’t know it from looking at our diets.

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University of Queensland researchers have for the first time introduced genetic material into plants via their roots, opening ...

MIT professor in astronautics and director of the MIT Media Lab Dava Newman talked about “disruptive innovation” and how to ...

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New “slow flower” farms grow beautiful blooms—without health-harming chemicals used by overseas operations that dominate the ...

Scientists studied plant DNA to understand past extinctions. They found that warming climates increase competition, ...

Next the researchers are working on soybeans and cowpeas; the latter is “a hugely important food-security crop in African ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

Even botanists can be surprised at the sheer variety of a houseplant often known only for being indestructible.