Photographing them was a thrilling experience that brought me in contact with plants that most of us know nothing about but ...

Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ...

If a farmer misses the fertilisation window for a flower, or damages the plant, he loses out on precious pods - it takes about 600 blossoms pollinated by hand to produce just 1kg of cured vanilla ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator ...

Baobab trees may be a proxy for measuring long-term use of land by humans. They live long, have economic benefits, and are ...