Nature is pretty freaking cool when you really sit down and think about it. Plants take carbon dioxide and breathe it in, eventually turning it into oxygen that they then release back into the ...

The relationship between native plants and pollinators and our ever-changing climate. The Buzz on Native Plants explores the relationship between native plants and pollinators and how they can benefit ...

Go out into any garden, park or forest and you will be surrounded by a silent cacophony of conversations. Conversations between plants. The fact that plants can "talk" has been known about for several ...

Growing plants that are native to your region can be one of the best things a gardener can do. In this video, I give a primer on some of the very best plants that are native to North America east of ...

A time-lapse video on Instagram from the Washington State Department of Ecology (@ecologywa) is gaining serious attention. It shows the impressive before-and-after effects of removing invasive ivy ...

A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it. On a shelf lined with terra cotta pots, herbs bend their stems toward ...

Why it matters: Since the 1980s, it's been known that plants possess defense mechanisms that operate through the air. Recently, a team of Japanese researchers has not only demonstrated but also ...

In the 1960s and '70s, a series of questionable experiments claimed to prove that plants could behave like humans, that they had feelings, responded to music and could even take a polygraph test.