A small town west of Montreal has decided to officially recognize trees as living beings with rights of their own, in what an environmental organization describes as a first in Quebec and Canada.

Maybe it’s not just a brownfield or a wastescape. Maybe it’s a novel ecosystem.

Over 80,000 accidental plant exposures in France, and the deadliest mistakes were mostly made by people who thought they knew what they were picking.

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The Sigil of Assurance You take a bit of wax and drip it over the em dash fresh out of the printer, working it over, building it up until it’s a little caterpillar crawling on the page, nestled betwee...

Are the devastating wildfires of this summer the result of the shifting climate? Of human greed and stupidity? Or simply of a decline in extensive husbandry and pastoralism?

Chicago's low physical exposure to coastal climate disasters like hurricanes and adaptation to weather risks contributed to its high rank. This doesn't mean things will be good here, one expert said —...

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Study of 56m-year-old leaves counters claims from Trump administration members of ‘benefits’ of fossil fuel pollution

Living technology asks a stranger question: what if infrastructure could grow, heal, reproduce, adapt, get sick, mutate, or form relationships with the people using it? That shift opens a different br...

To germinate in India's dry forests, some seeds must pass through a sloth bear's gut. Its digestion softens rock-hard seeds to regenerate native flora, but with an unexpected twist: it also unintentio...

The tiny Costasiella sea slug looks like something from a fantasy world, with a body covered in green, leaf-shaped structures that make it resemble a miniature underwater plant. Also called the leaf s...

"Vegetable" is a culinary term, not scientific. Learn why vegetables don't technically exist and how we define food.

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A study reveals that the flowers humans love may also be the favourites of bumblebees, but not of thrips.

By mapping interactions across more than 5,000 Amazonian tree species, researchers reveal that protecting the forest also means protecting its pollinators and seed dispersers.

Scientists have discovered an almost entirely hidden world of living organisms hundreds of feet below Earth's surface.

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At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification on the definition of biological sex is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary appr....

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The SLF is dedicated to promoting diverse voices and literary quality in speculative fiction. We accomplish this goal through your support in encouraging promising new writers, assisting established…

Scientists find that rice can tell stories of a hard winter to future generations and prepare them for survival

Duckweed is an abundant plant in many parts of the world and researchers are testing if it can be grown in space.

Discover your new favorite author with this bundle of books from sci-fi humorist John Scalzi! Pay what you want and support World Central Kitchen!

As part of a collaboration between the Poetry Society of America and Babbel, 1,500 poets and poetry lovers weighed in on the most beautiful word in the English language, crowning "diaphanous."

GPS collars and fitness-app traffic reveal that the Santa Cruz Mountains' pumas track human recreation patterns with surprising precision and adjust their lives accordingly—complicating old assumption...

Insects join list of species capable of solving simple ‘box-and-banana’ problem that demonstrates basic intelligence

Winemaker Maison Ruinart created a collection of Champagnes from grapes grown in years with abnormal weather.

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Scientists tap into Pavlov's experiment to show they can train mosquitoes to love the smell of DEET.

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