World Forest Day 2024: Indian forests are losing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide due to climate change

While increasing CO2 levels can initially boost photosynthesis, the warming sun acts like a cruel twist, hindering enzymes crucial for the process

Scientists isolate fungi that can boost plant growth even with less water

The research helped record better growth parameters and higher proline concentration

Benefits of self-rejection

Evolution favours plants that rely on cross-pollination

Geneva meet concludes with progress on ‘Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework’ for CoP15

CoP15 was to be held in Kunming, China in 2020 but will now be held in August this year

Animal biodiversity loss limits plants’ ability to adapt to climate change globally: Experts

India 

The dominant survives

Increasing nitrogen levels will pit plants against each other

Colonial plants

Mangoes lost 150 years ago

A Karnataka farmer conserves mangoes lost 150 years ago

Local citrus goes global

In celebration of biodiversity

No food in forests: Lack of food is driving Kerala’s wild animals into human settlements

Spread of invasive plants, habitat destruction destroying food for herbibores, which in turn is affecting carnivores

Let the genes cross borders

National sovereignty over genetic resources could undermine food security

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Water in a sieve

Don’t confine global resources to national boundaries

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Life on Earth at risk

A series of landmark reports show rapid biodiversity loss, land degradation driving species to extinction

Human actions have made a huge mess of natural world

Even though this biodiversity crisis is humanity’s fault, there is still time to save the Earth if governments, companies and individuals …

International Biodiversity Day 2021: We are part of the solution

Let us make the International Biodiversity Day a routine action rather than a mere one-day celebration every year

How plants gauge the time of day

Light-sensitive proteins — called photoreceptors — measures time in plants and keeps them abreast of seasons, which is …

Four regional biodiversity assessments released; focus is on the way we use resources  

About 500,000 square kilometres of land in Africa might be degraded if the region continues to follow the same resource usage pattern

Ensure ethical trade in wild plants, consumers urged

New report highlights how many wild plants used in everyday products are sourced without any consideration to supply sustainability

World’s smallest terrestrial fern found in Western Ghats

The newly-found fern is one cm long and has different genetic and physical characters compared to other known fern species

Climate change hurts: Will Gourmet ‘gur’ continue to thrive in Bengal’s Jaynagar

Destruction of date palm trees during cyclone Amphan and warming weather have resulted in a huge decline in production of West Bengal’s …

The mysterious existence of a leafless kauri stump, kept alive by its forest neighbours

Whatever happens on their journey from feeding themselves to being fed happens out of sight — likely below ground

Invasive alien species are a serious threat to the planet: 4 key messages for Africa

Constrained financial resources and the lack of legal frameworks are largely to blame for the lack of progress in the management of invasive species