Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, ...

NASA scientists are using airborne technology to track flowers from above, offering new insights into seasonal plant cycles.

Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

This is the first time that a fossil thrips has been recorded anywhere in Africa, or the entire southern hemisphere.

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses ... they could trace back to the very first plants on land. One of the big questions is how the earliest ...

This episode of Untold Earth gets up close and personal with ... (gentle music) - [Narrator] Moss was among the first land plants to evolve out of the ocean roughly 450 million years ago.

In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

That's when the first land plants evolved and dominated the Earth, and inadvertently led to many groups of insects, including thrips, diversifying to keep up with drastic changes in their ...

The National Park Service and an Australian company are at odds over an old Mojave Desert gold mine, where the company is seeking to extract rare earth minerals.

An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...