Plants growing at the bottom of sinkholes in China's Dashiwei Tiankeng Group don't take up as much carbon as surface plants do, but they have much higher levels of nutrients in their tissues. When you ...

Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest. When you purchase through links on our ...

By Cassidy Beach In Borneo’s dense rainforest, some communities of Punan people still find their medicine among the trees.

MUSKEGON, MI - A “micro forest” growing in an urban area is creating a shady competition between plants, encouraging them to grow at a faster rate. The Marquette Micro Forest, located on Marquette ...

Poodle-dog bush, a pretty but dangerous plant, is growing in parts of the Angeles National Forest hit by recent wildfires. Hairs covering the stems, leaves and flowers have glands that secrete a ...

Wild chimpanzees in Uganda appeared to seek out and eat specific plants with medicinal properties when they were sick. Anup Shah via Getty Images Chimpanzees may be using the forest like their own ...

In major yam-producing areas such as West Africa and the Caribbean, the tuber is traditionally grown using sticks as scaffolds for vine growth, which are traditionally cut from the forest, causing ...