"This very arid soil houses a treasure," ecologist María Fernanda Pérez told Live Science after the Atacama Desert produced a rare winter bloom. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

In one of the hottest places on the planet, a modest desert shrub has quietly rewritten what scientists thought plants could survive. The discovery of the most heat-tolerant plant yet found on Earth ...

Rather than helping each other out when they're attacked, plants may have to eavesdrop on each other to know when to launch their own defenses. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Vegetation has been a key part of the Earth's surface for only about 450 million years. With the progression of the terrestrial landscape from bare surfaces to widespread coverage by plants - ground ...

At this time of year we Buffalonians are almost overwhelmed by the dramatic change of the world about us. From bleak off-whites, browns, grays and blacks, we have passed rapidly into a technicolor ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster. By Laura Baisas Published Mar 12, 2025 2:00 PM EDT Get ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

Researchers at the UC Davis, have been awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to develop new technologies and workforce training programs to grow plants in low-resource environments ...

Sometime in the 2040s, humans may well reach a new frontier—Mars. To get there, we'll need sustainable sources of food, medicines and materials. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech ...

PASADENA, Calif.–In the next decade, when scientists are able to study Earth-sized worlds around other stars, they may find that foliage on some of the planets is predominantly yellow–or orange, or ...