Mesoamerica, origin of several global crops, faces floristic biodiversity loss: Study

Mesoamerica is seeing a decline in the wild relatives of potatoes, beans, squash and maize due to loss of wild spaces and mechanisation of agriculture

Thirty one per cent of world’s cacti facing threat of extinction: IUCN

Unscrupulous collection of live plants and seeds for trade and private ornamental collection affects 47 per cent of the threatened species

Fungi crucial to diversity

Pathogenic fungi kill seedlings of the same species growing near each other in forests and promote biodiversity

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Dwarfed by climate change

Animals, plants stunt as global warming alters metabolism  

Earth on verge of mass extinction

Event will be human-induced, warn scientists

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Reigning greens

New global map that charts plant diversity

Orchid’s secret note

Global warming forces it to bloom early

Climate has its say

Land formation does not get to decide biodiversity alone  

World Biodiversity Day: Ever more important amid COVID-19 pandemic

Various levels and forms of biodiversity such as ecosystems, species, genes across all taxonomic ranges are threatened, and facing an alarming …

Climate effect: Airborne pollen in United States may go up by 2050

Pollen season will start earlier and last longer throughout the US, simulations by researchers show

Database launched on flora in peninsular India

The work started with digitising the flora of Karnataka, but was later expanded to cover other states

The environmental costs of Trump's wall

All that concrete will generate millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions and the wall will ravage a unique desert habitat that straddles two countries

This week from the world of science and environment

The discovery of an important piece in evolutionary science and the threat of extreme weather events to our food security—a quick look at …

Feeding frenzy

14 fly species and 18 species of wasps found living in a single tropical flower, feeding on each other

Taxman's hedge

Searching for the great hedge in the UK, Dileep Chinchalker uncovers the story of a hedge that ran from Torbela near Rawalpindi to Calcutta in …

Bee species are missing, pollination on high risk

Plants have a new date with flowering

Rhododendrons losing ground

14 species native to Himalayas are critically endangered