A new species of sunflower, Ovicula biradiata, has been identified in Big Bend National Park, Texas. This discovery, made by ...

With over 1.3 million seed samples from 6,200 plant species, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault stands as the last line of ...

Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their vehicle crunches ...

Sheet masks are the ultimate lazy beauty hack and they actually work! From hydration to brightening, here are the best ones ...

KS2 Geography. Biomes. A short video for pupils aged 7 to 11 investigating two of Earth's major biomes - savannahs and ...

Minqin county, located in the city of Wuwei in Gansu, is sandwiched between China's third and fourth largest deserts -- the Badain Jaran and the Tengger. Local people plant suosuo trees, also known as ...

This rainfall, likely driven by tropical plumes and monsoon expansion, narrowed the desert, improved habitability, and facilitated human movement. Analysis of stalagmite samples from caves in southern ...

Climatic feedbacks and ecosystem impacts related to dust in the Arctic include direct radiative forcing (absorption ... pollens, spores, insect and plant fragments), synthetic substances (e.g., ...

Photons filter down through the atmosphere and are eagerly absorbed by light-powered organisms such as plants and algae ... Every winter in the high Arctic, for example, the sun, hidden by ...

Each biome contains multiple ecosystems, and all but the most frigid arctic regions are supported by plants. There are five main types of biomes —forest, desert, tundra, aquatic, and grassland ...

(Thief River Falls, MN) Arctic Cat will lay off around 385 employees at its Thief River Falls plant this spring. Arctic Cat recently informed the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic ...