Farm waste like crop stalks could fight climate change by becoming building materials that store carbon for decades instead ...

Considered natural allies against climate change due to their absorption of carbon dioxide, plants may however offer more limited help than expected. The cause: an essential element: nitrogen. Indeed, ...

The loss of plant species that are especially vulnerable to climate change might lead to bigger problems than previous studies have suggested The three-year study focused on Coyote Ridge, a grassland ...

Studies on how plants respond to drought conditions are well-known, but their recovery has been understudied.

The field of plant adaptation to climate change has garnered significant attention due to the increasing frequency and intensity of environmental stressors such as temperature fluctuations, altered ...

As the last bits of snow on Mount Washington melt away in early summer, they’re providing more for the alpine ecosystem than their soggy remnants may suggest. According to research from the ...

Climate change is fundamentally altering the dynamics of plant diseases, with its impacts manifesting across global agro-ecosystems. Rising temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and increased ...

Vanilla plants could have a future that’s not so sweet. Wild relatives of the vanilla plant — which could be essential if the original cash crop disappears — may someday live in different places than ...

Once a seed germinates, it is committed to one location. Plants are sessile—stuck where they started out—forced to cope with ...