The Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club will present Dr. Wesley Knapp, CEO of the Center for Plant Conservation (CPC), on Tuesday, Feb. 3 at 10 a.m. in the Secret Garden. Knapp is an internationally ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

A small, slender shrub once written off as lost to history has reappeared in the red dirt of remote northern Australia, ...

Like animals, many plant species are struggling to adapt to a human-dominated planet. However, plants are often overlooked in conservation efforts, even though they are cheaper and easier to protect ...

Ptilotus senarius is a small shrub with pleasing purple-pink flowers near the Gulf of Carpentaria, and hadn’t been collected since 1967.

Climate change and habitat destruction are driving species to extinction at an alarming rate. The impact extends across all ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — A company planning to build a lithium and boron mine in central Nevada says its efforts to grow an endangered wildflower have been successful so far, but ...

A biodiverse region in South Africa is experiencing a plant poaching crisis due to social media trends, driving some species to extinction and threatening the area's ecosystem. According to Yale ...

Now is the time to identify the conditions that cause plants to die. Doing so will allow us to better protect plants by choosing conservation targets more strategically, botanists argue. Now is the ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service has been chronically slow to protect animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act, ...

The world's botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-collecting, say researchers. A major study of ...