In the history of our planet, many plant species have flourished and faded away but never before has extinction been so closely tied to the activities of humans. In this article, we will discover ten ...

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

Bishop Museum is offering an updated Botany Checklist of native and non-native plants of the islands — alive and extinct — as ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

Early one morning in 1985, a pair of researchers trekked into a spit of Colombian rainforest surrounded by coffee plantations. Their task was to identify all the epiphytes — plants that grow on other ...

The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of herbivory long before flowering plants flourished, upending a long-held hypothesis Jack Tamisiea Paleontologist Conrad Labandeira, the ...