It’s not enough to say, ‘The forest is important,’ especially nowadays. You have to give reasons why, and biodiversity is a way to communicate to the broader community about why an area needs to be ...

A botanist collecting seeds from Death Valley sage is part of a broader federal effort to bank native plant genetics for long ...

For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga has been trying to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage, for ...

Charlotte Taylor has named 500 new plant species, more than any other living female taxonomist. She's one of 60 taxonomists at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Millions of plant samples, some centuries ...

Since she's a botanist, let's say Robin Wall Kimmerer's last book bloomed slowly. It was called "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, And The Teachings Of Plants." A small ...

In her new book The Serviceberry, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer argues that humans would be wise to learn from the circular economies of reciprocity and abundance that play out in natural ecosystems.