Scientists analysing 2,000 herbarium specimens discovered jewelflowers survive new climates not by evolving, but by engineering their own familiar microenvironments

Researchers discovered that tiny temperature differences within single farm fields can be more important than entire landscapes for bee foraging success.

Have you ever wondered what’s inside a flower? It might look delicate and simple, but inside, they are busy running a secret operation.

Las Vegas trees create 17°C shade oases but can't cool city air like temperate climates due to desert adaptations that limit transpiration.

As seasons get more extreme in the Amazon, weather patterns will shift across South America, threatening both indigenous communities and economic stability.

Well-managed golf courses are helping save endangered primrose flowers, allowing them grow in number and stay genetically healthy as farms become less friendly to wildflowers.

What might appear to be one network of plants and pollinators may in fact be many.

A story popular in New Scientist at the moment questions what we know of the deep past, and it has a plant twist.

Amazon gold mining leaves forests unable to heal for centuries, because miners carelessly turn the landscape into a giant sieve.

Why do flowers of the same species come in different colours? Researchers have discovered that one answer to this phenomenon lies in soil conditions and adaptations to environmental stress.

Like many animals, some plants can actively hamper their rivals’ attempts to reproduce in previously unimagined ways, according to a recent study published in The American Naturalist.

A rainforest flower has evolved to look and smell like a pile of dead leaves, convincing enough to trick a beetle into pollinating it.