A research team led by Prof. Huang Zhenying from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has discovered a remarkable survival strategy—a unique seed dormancy cycling mechanism ...

As Australia swelters through a scorching summer, the nation's flora is facing not just extreme heat, but also prolonged heat ...

Plant ecologist Associate Professor Andy Leigh's research focuses on how plants withstand heat stress, to develop strategies ...

For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a ...

But unlike the pig, this isn't the first time Minecraft cows have got a new variant. Players can already find the Mooshroom roaming around rare biomes, and while the Moobloom never officially made it ...

A Guide to Safe and Memorable Adventures. The role of night vision devices in exploring nocturnal wildlife. Tips for safe ...

Mojang has been on an ongoing trend of adding mob variants in Minecraft, and it should add more mob forms to fully diversify ...

About 8 inches (20 centimeters) of snow covered the ground and plants outside Braden Doucet’s Lafayette, Louisiana, home Tuesday afternoon. It’s also cold ... make sure its animals are ...

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 ...

About 8 inches (20 centimeters) of snow covered the ground and plants outside Braden Doucet’s Lafayette, Louisiana, home Tuesday afternoon. It's also cold ... make sure its animals are cared ...

The short answer to 'are snake plants cold-tolerant?' is yes, to some extent they are. This is largely explained by their native environment, where they grow in dry desert climates of West Central ...

URUMQI -- Chinese researchers have identified the molecular mechanisms behind the cold tolerance of Syntrichia caninervis, a ...