The Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club will present Dr. Wesley Knapp, CEO of the Center for Plant Conservation (CPC), on Tuesday, ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

Research in the Journal of Applied Ecology has identified threats to endangered plants in an urban area, generating ...

A study by the Center for Biological Diversity published today in the peer-reviewed journal PeerJ found that 2,204 species around the United States should be considered for protection under the ...

A small, slender shrub once written off as lost to history has reappeared in the red dirt of remote northern Australia, ...

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

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — A company planning to build a lithium and boron mine in central Nevada says its efforts to grow an endangered wildflower have been successful so far, but ...

A biodiverse region in South Africa is experiencing a plant poaching crisis due to social media trends, driving some species to extinction and threatening the area's ecosystem. According to Yale ...

Now is the time to identify the conditions that cause plants to die. Doing so will allow us to better protect plants by choosing conservation targets more strategically, botanists argue. Now is the ...

The Ka Palupalu o Kanaloa plant and the Indigenous people of Hawaiʻi have been deeply connected for more than 1,000 years, according to a Department of Land and Natural Resources' release in late ...

The world's botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-collecting, say researchers. A major study of ...