In the late summer of 1941, German troops surrounded Leningrad - the Russian city now known as St Petersburg - with a plan to starve its population into submission. So began the longest blockade ...

Melissa L. Sevigny, author of “Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon” ...

A new fuzzy plant species called the "Wooly Devil" has been discovered amongst the arid landscapes of Big Bend National Park in Texas.

Plant biologists argue that plants are definitively not conscious, in a paper published in Trends in Plant Science on July 3. They are pushing back against researchers who study plant neurobiology and ...

Deb Manley, the volunteer, snapped pictures of the plant and uploaded them to the app iNaturalists, where botanists from around the globe chimed in to help identify the mysterious plant.

The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species and genus. It was found with help from the community science app iNaturalist ...

When Manley uploaded photos to the community science app iNaturalist, botanists got excited. “That kind of caused an uproar — it caused an email chain of different botanists emailing each other,” says ...