In a study published in Nature Climate Change, researchers led by Prof. Zhu Jiaojun from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have reported a mycorrhizae-mediated ...

Anyone seeing a white jacaranda (Jacaranda puberula), also known as caroba, blooming in the sandbank forest might assume that the leafy tree could not survive in such sandy soil. They would be right.

Even a toddler knows that plants need water. It’s perhaps the first thing we learn about these green lifeforms. But how plants budget this resource varies considerably. The kapok trees of the Amazon ...

Native plants crowded onto postage-stamp-size plots have been delivering environmental benefits around the world — and, increasingly, in the U.S. By Cara Buckley The tiny forest lives atop an old ...

Probiotics, or "good bacteria," are often used to rebalance the human gut microbiome. A balanced gut means the good bacteria can control "bad" bacteria. New research at the Scripps Institution of ...

The mysterious, nutrient-rich soil of the Amazons might hold the secret to fight climate change ...