Like animals, many plant species are struggling to adapt to a human-dominated planet. However, plants are often overlooked in conservation efforts, even though they are cheaper and easier to protect ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 – ...

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

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 ...

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 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed two Channel Islands plants from the endangered species list on Monday, following the plants’ successful resuscitation from the brink of extinction. The ...