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

Nevada's desert landscape is filled with life that is hidden to human eyes. But when conditions are just right, typically ...

What is art anyway, and why won’t plants be artists too?” asks Romero. Rooted in scientific, artistic and philosophical non-anthropocentric research, her project, The Museum of Plant Art ...

Vegetation has been a key part of the Earth's surface for only about 450 million years. With the progression of the terrestrial landscape from bare surfaces to widespread coverage by plants ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

But the biodiversity crisis isn’t just faunal, it’s floral too. Since the 1750s, at least 571 species of plants have gone extinct in the wild, according to a global survey recently published ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted ... one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert ...

Our dinosaur expert Dr Susie Maidment and fossil plant expert Dr Paul Kenrick explore what the world ... had moved almost into the positions they are in today. Back then Earth was a lot warmer than it ...