Sydney: In a study published in Nature magazine, researchers mapped the diversity of plant life on Earth’s islands and found ...

It emerges that islands contain a disproportionately large share of global plant diversity and endangered species. Read the paper: Islands are key for protecting the world’s plant endemism ...

A global team of scientists has launched an ambitious project aimed at illuminating the planet’s plant diversity “darkspots." ...

A study in Nature reveals that islands, covering just 5.3% of the planet's land, harbor 21% of the world's plant biodiversity ...

From Tasmania to Madagascar to New Guinea, islands make up just over five per cent of Earth's land yet are home to 31 per cent of the world's plant species. A new study shows that of all plants ...

The study, published in the journal New Phytologist, identified 33 global plant diversity darkspots with at least 14 (44%) of these in tropical Asia. With 3 in 4 of the planet’s undescribed plant ...

When it comes to the world of flowering plants, one family dominates when it comes to diversity — the Asteraceae family. Boasting around 34,000 species under its umbrella, this family of flowering ...

After flowering plants, the world became like an English garden ... advantages that may have helped give rise to their diversity. While this so-called herbaceous habit might have given them ...

Results from a decades-long field study in Minnesota reveal the dangerous impact of rising carbon dioxide and nitrogen ...

Dozens of studies have demonstrated that nitrogen pollution, due mainly to the burning of fossil fuels and agricultural practices, is causing plant ...

Pugilists including world champion Ricardo Malajika, visited Diversity High School on October 7 to plant the seed of possibilities. Among others who attended were the trainer Manny Fernandes, boxer ...

Some trees are so rare that only a single known individual remains, like the lonesome palm in Mauritius, Hyophorbe ...