The Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club will present Dr. Wesley Knapp, CEO of the Center for Plant Conservation (CPC), on Tuesday, Feb. 3 at 10 a.m. in the Secret Garden. Knapp is an internationally ...

A study by the Center for Biological Diversity published today in the peer-reviewed journal PeerJ found that 2,204 species around the United States should be considered for protection under the ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

Climate change and habitat destruction are driving species to extinction at an alarming rate. The impact extends across all ...

Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — A company planning to build a lithium and boron mine in central Nevada says its efforts to grow an endangered wildflower have been successful so far, but ...

Now is the time to identify the conditions that cause plants to die. Doing so will allow us to better protect plants by choosing conservation targets more strategically, botanists argue. Now is the ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

Modern scrub mints, delicate flowering plants that grow mostly in Florida, likely result from ancient hybridization, according to a recent study I published with colleagues. Scrub mints are a clade – ...

The world's botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-collecting, say researchers. A major study of ...

Ptilotus senarius is a small shrub with pleasing purple-pink flowers near the Gulf of Carpentaria, and hadn’t been collected since 1967.