Plants

We asked Leah Penniman, cofounder of Soul Fire Farm and author of Farming While Black, about the healing power of soil and ending an unjust food system.

In his new book, ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan chronicles the efforts of “plant midwives,” women who are working to restore edible plants and healing herbs.

Climate change may threaten the trees grown in inland cities. Adapting to that threat may help us protect city residents and mitigate future warming.

A new study — the first of its kind — finds that the world’s conservation areas fail to protect hundreds of rare cactus species.

Researchers have identified a new tree species in Cameroon, but it only grew in a landscape that has now been destroyed by agriculture.

Current laws further a cycle of poverty while not really protecting rare plants. There’s a way to fix that.

New research shows that 2,000-year-old baobab trees are suddenly dying. New trees won’t have a chance, either.

It took a decade of hard work, but one of the world’s most important wildlife corridors is now emerging from the fragmented forests of coastal Brazil.

Exhaustive searchers have failed to turn up the lost Algerian species Adenocarpus faurei. Could other plants in the region also be extinct?

The “extinction capital of the world” could start losing unique plant species in as little as a month if funding disappears.