Despite their fundamental differences, plants, animals, and fungi share certain metabolic processes. Biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered ...

Fire may seem a destructive force, but for some plants, it can be helpful. In wildfire-prone lands, a blaze can bring fresh vitality by recycling and boosting nutrients, and bestowing space and light.

Explores how plants and animals survive in one of Earth's harshest environments—deserts, where annual rainfall is less than 10 inches and temperature extremes are common. The film shows how desert ...

January ushers in more than just winter. It is the season of the four “tions”: brumation, hibernation, migration and vernalization. Each of these represents a specific behavior that ultimately affects ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A goat with an arrow wound nibbles the medicinal herb dittany. O. Dapper, CC BY When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered ...

What came first — the plant or the seed? Columnist Carol Barany explores how plants made the leap from water to land, why ...