New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

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

UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil ...

Each year on March 3, World Wildlife Day draws global attention to the plants and animals that make life on Earth possible.

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 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 ...

Modern scrub mints, delicate flowering plants that grow mostly in Florida, likely result from ancient hybridization, according to a recent study I published with colleagues. Scrub mints are a clade – ...

LOS ANGELES— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today removed two Channel Islands plants from the endangered species list because they have successfully recovered. The island bedstraw and Santa Cruz ...