Two Florida botanical gardens placed on this list of the top '10 Best in the U.S.' Here's why, where they are and how much it ...

Nestled deep within the Talamanca Mountains of Costa Rica, San Gerardo de Dota stands as a testament to the pristine beauty ...

Manuel T. Cayon has written about Mindanao for national newspapers for more than two decades, mostly on conflict reporting, and on the political front. His stint with TODAY newspaper in the ’90s ...

In the study of why and how animals look the way they do, color is king—at least, the range of color humans can see. A ...

Ball Moss (Tillandsia recurvata) is a small epiphyte commonly found clinging to limbs of live oaks and other trees in ...

Cloud forests are biodiversity hot spots and crucial water sources. But climate change and deforestation are shrinking their range, new data show.

As climate change accelerates, finding effective solutions that deliver outsized impact becomes increasingly crucial. Now, ...

The water they need to survive lands in the little cup inside the middle of the plant because they can’t get the water from the ground. A special term for these types of plants is epiphytes.

She will explore the anti-inflammatory potential of two native Philippine epiphytes, the Piper betle (buyo) and Epipremnum pinnatum (tibatib). “These plants have been used in folk medicine for ...

Commensal interactions between epiphytes and their hosts are a major component of species interactions in forest canopies; however, few studies have investigated species assemblage patterns and ...