Above the main campus at the University of California, Berkeley, nestled in Strawberry Canyon at the Botanical Gardens​, ...

After 25 years of diligent work, an English botanic gardens is ready to face whatever reality climate change may throw at us.

The Millennium Seed Bank at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew holds more than 2.5 billion wild plant seeds from around 40,000 ...

Hours after shutting down potential drama about their respective beauty brands, Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber each stepped ...

Kew's Ambassador for Wakehurst Cate Blanchett hosts the latest series of Kew's award-winning podcast, which explores the past ...

Humans are not the only creatures who know how to invest. Plant communities have a secret “trust fund” buried underground: the soil seed bank. The soil seed bank is a natural reserve of seeds in the ...

Seed banks are a cheap and effective way of protecting species against extinction and securing genetic diversity. The most important seed banks in Brazil are devoted to agricultural species and ...

Global Strategy for Plant Conservation says 75% of the world's threatened plant species will be conserved outside of their natural habitat by 2020 Conservation efforts currently focus on storing seeds ...

There is growing concern throughout the world about the uncontrolled exploitation and depletion of the earth's natural resources, especially affecting the plant biodiversity of tropical forests. The ...

Brazilian agricultural research agency Embrapa has collected some 120,000 seeds from nearly 700 crop species over the course of 49 years, part of an effort to safeguard the country’s rich food ...

Over the past 100 years, an ever-expanding consensus has taken shape—first among scientists and later among policymakers, farmers, and eaters—that we need to preserve biological diversity in the ...

We live at a critical time in terms of biodiversity, when 93% of the Earth’s vegetable varieties have gone extinct. Sefra Alexandra, also known as the Seed Huntress, is on a quest to revive and save ...