Veins tell it all

Arrangement of veins control carbon, water intake in plants

Benefits of self-rejection

Evolution favours plants that rely on cross-pollination

From The Blurbs

Mira Behn: A friend of nature

The urge to be close to nature guided Madeleine Slade, who came to be known as Mira Behn, throughout her life

पहाड़ों पर बंजर खेतों की रंगत लौटाने को एकजुट हुए किसान

डबरा गांव के कुछ किसान परिवार एक बार फिर एकजुट हुए हैं। किसानों ने आपस में मिलकर फिर से बंजर जमीनों पर अन्न उगाने ...

Listen... plants too speak

As early as in 1880, Charles Darwin demonstrated that plants could sense light, moisture, gravity, pressure and possessed several other qualities.…

Secret life of plants

A new book reinforces the fact that plants have intelligence and a complex sensory network

Plant a repellant

Disastrous dyke

Documenting the dying

SOUTH AFRICA

BHUTAN

Capturing nature

CHHOBI MELA–2001·exhibition of photographs on nature and wildlife·The Academy of Fine Arts·Kolkata·January 2001

Asian plentitude

Eastern Asia enjoys greater plant diversity due to climate change and habitat variety

Quantity mars quality

Nutrient value of fruits and vegetables is falling

Deserts not deserted, but full of floral, faunal activity

These unforgiving lands may appear lifeless only to the unacquainted, but they are a unique and living ecosystem

Flame that cools

Long-forgotten palash flower helps beat the heat, offers health benefits

Ferns: heavy metal guzzlers

Can replace expensive methods of controlling pollution

Weeding out belief

Myth that invasive species dominate new habitats debunked

The seeds of trouble

Privatisation of tea and rubber plantations has endangered the flora and fauna in southern Sri Lanka

SOUTH KOREA

CAMBODIA

Risk analysis mooted

Forest grump

Swamps of Western Ghats in danger due to human activities

Conservation in a cocoon