How big they are: The smallest plants, known as desmids and picozoa, are single-celled algae that are less than 0.0004 inches ...

Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado -- the world's largest and most floristically diverse savanna -- account for nearly half of all its trees. The 'hyperdominance' by ...

Biologists have create a web portal for the world's most charismatic plants, ferns. The Florida Museum of Natural History has partnered with 35 herbarium collections across the United States to create ...

Spruce trees retain ancient memories of their environment and communicate with one other in the hours preceding a solar ...

The Emerald ash borer has been moving through Maine for several years, decimating ash trees in its path, and the invasive ...

While lightning is a fascinating phenomenon, it's also infamous in its capacity for destruction and the danger it poses to ...