Whether in a desert, the savanna, or a tropical rainforest, plants have an important role in the ecological processes of Earth’s biomes. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore ...

As Earth continues to warm, more and more of the planet is becoming dry. A 2024 UN report found that in the last three ...

The New World and African parrots are distributed from Central and South America to the Congo basin’s tropical forests to the open woodland and savanna of southern Africa ... neutralise the toxins ...

At each moment of each day, the Amazon breathes, dances, and sings with an endless variety of plants and animals, many of ...

These feature plants from Polynesia, Congo, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, South Asia, the Antilles, the Shrubby Savanna, the Green ...

Ndumo’s history reveals the challenges of integrating biodiversity conservation with impoverished local communities’ needs, rights and values, and maintaining that conservation in remote regions where ...

The Gabonese forests are representative of the Congolian tropical forests ... as well as diversity of plant and animal species—not only from Gabon’s rainforest but also from the country’s wetlands, ...

The majority of the threatened species do not grow in environmentally protected locations. Tropical plants in the genus ...

A new analysis reveals that nearly half of the genus Heliconia, a group of tropical plants popular for their bright, beak-shaped flowers, are threatened with extinction. A new analysis from ...