botany
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Trees Are Even More Amazing Than We Realised
Trees, is there anything they can’t do? Doubtful. Let’s see: producing half the world’s oxygen, providing habitat for millions of species, creating the soil and timber resources we depend on. Not bad. But all that’s just scratching the surface. As new research shows, there’s a lot more going on beneath the forest floor than we…
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Here’s One Way Climate Change Will Make The World Look Different
We now know that climate change is a lot more complicated than the world just getting hotter or colder. It will have all kinds of effects, and scientists studying the African savanna think they have found one of them.
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This Gene Could Help Plants Survive Drought
We’ve talked a lot about the 500 years in California. Scientists are wondering how plants could survive a hotter, dryer planet in the future. A team of researchers at Oxford may have found an answer by tinkering with a gene used for photosynthesis.
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These Brand New Bitters Bring Biodiversity To Your Cocktail
By day, Rachel Meyer is a plant evolutionary biologist researching crop genomics at NYU. But, by evening and weekend, she is on a mission to get more botany into your cocktail — and she’s shared an exclusive new drink recipe with Gizmodo to show how.