About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

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Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder ...

The earth itself is fertile artistic ground at Somerset House — but the exhibition stops short of getting visitors’ hands dirty, even in imagination.

Tracey Seaward is one of the producers of The Herds, an innovative performance art project that uses puppets to highlight the ...

Whether you’re a nature enthusiast or just someone who loves the idea of carrying a piece of the earth with you ... as you ...

It stocks plants and trees that serve specific purposes, and sometimes, that serve no purpose at all. The couple believes that every species is on Earth for a reason. “The soil decomposes ...

At the National Gallery of Art, 'Little Beasts' pairs nearly 75 artworks with around 60 objects from the National Museum of ...

SARASOTA PHOTOS COURTESY Visit Sarasota County. GLASS PHOTO COURTESY Jason Swisher. POLITICS ASIDE, you’ll find a vast ...

"It's one of the Holy Grails of biotechnology," says Jon Zehr, a now-retired microbial ecologist from UC Santa Cruz — the ability to engineer plants that ... complex life on Earth," he says.