(Reuters) - Ben Nyberg stood on a knife-edge ridge along Hawaii’s Na Pali Coast, his eyes scouring the leafy recesses of the neighboring red-rock ridges. It was quiet, if not for a faint buzzing of a ...

Scientists discovered a 47-million-year-old extinct plant in Utah has features unseen today. The extinct species, which has been renamed to Othniophyton elongatum, was first identified in 1969.

Climate change and habitat destruction are driving species to extinction at an alarming rate. The impact extends across all ...

According to a global report, the devastation of the natural world is putting two out of every five plant species in the world at risk of going extinct. Plants and fungi are vital to sustaining life ...

Jordan Teisher and Matthew Albrecht are leading efforts at the Missouri Botanical Garden to bring back plants that have been extinct in the wild for more than 100 years. Conservationists are working ...

A botanist traversing a harrowing knife-edge ridge on the South Atlantic's Ascension Island has stumbled upon a little fern long believed extinct. The last time anyone saw one of the delicate little ...

Bonnie Heidel, lead botanist of UW’s Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, was a co-author of a research paper, titled “Vascular Plant Extinction in the Continental United States and Canada,” that ...

WASHINGTON— An assessment released today by the Environmental Protection Agency found that three popular neonicotinoid insecticides are likely to jeopardize the continued existence of more than 200 ...

Plants can move in ways that might surprise you. Some of them even show 'sleep movements,' folding or raising their leaves each night before opening them again the next day. Now, researchers offer ...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Ben Nyberg stood on a knife-edge ridge along Hawaii’s Na Pali Coast, his eyes scouring the leafy recesses of the neighboring red-rock ridges. It was quiet, if not for a faint ...