Plants

Wild plants related to our main agricultural crops are important to future food security. But more than half are endangered, a new study finds.

The Biden administration has an opportunity — and a responsibility — to help save the coastal ecosystems that protect us.

New research points out the frequent inequity of species’ scientific names, a longstanding problem that creates barriers to conservation.

A new study compares snowpack across the world and offers a tool to help scientists pinpoint where this critical resource is waning — and what that means for ecosystems and economies.

Dozens of frogs, fish, orchids and other species — many unseen for decades — may no longer exist due to humanity’s destructive effects on the planet.

Alabama’s Mobile River basin has the most aquatic biodiversity in the country. But we’re in danger of losing it before we even know what’s there.

Underwater meadows have rapidly disappeared around the world, but new research suggests they may be the easiest coastal habitat to restore.

Biodiversity loss threatens national security. We need to invest in technologies to preserve our vital food varieties.

With his new “field atlas,” Kaufmann challenges readers to better understand the places where we live — and to protect them.

A new paper identifies 65 plant extinctions in the continental United States and Canada — but that’s probably just a fraction of what we’ve lost.