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An LED grow light illuminating a plant's leaf and turning it a shade of purple.

Yes, you can overuse grow lights on indoor plants

By Ellen Airhart

Feathered Caudipteryx dinosaurs drinking from a sandy river among palm trees before the asteroid hit

June was probably a terrible month to be a dinosaur. Here’s how we know.

By Michael J. Benton / The Conversation

Winter-Plant-Care

How to help houseplants survive winter

By Ellen Airhart

Man looking at phone on mountain top

4 sustainable New Year’s resolutions to set in 2022

By Sara Kiley Watson

three sets of arms holding clay pots with plants

7 key plant care tips we learned this year

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A million ‘super trees’ are coming to clean Houston’s air in the next decade

Cat sniffing olive tree indoors

Swap your toxic household plants for these 4 pet-friendly alternatives

By Margo Milanowski

Fresh Christmas tree with white lights, star tinsel, and book ornaments

How to keep a Christmas tree fresh for as long as possible

hands holding seeds

You should collect and plant native seeds. Here’s how.

By Ellen Airhart

Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, on three Polaroid photos

This historic Brooklyn cemetery shows us a future without lawns

By Ryan Goldberg

fossilized tree fern trunk

Fossilized plants give us hints about what ice age forests may have looked like

By Kate Baggaley

adult Aenigmanu alvareziae

After 50 years, botanists finally identified this Amazonian plant

By Margo Milanowski

A small plant sprouting out of some brown dirt.

Quick and dirty tips to make sure your plants love the soil they’re in

By Ellen Airhart

A small mint plant growing roots in a glass jar full of water.

6 ways to magically regrow vegetables in only water

By Natalie Wallington

Prickly pear cactus spines closeup

How to remove cactus spines (including ones stuck in your throat)

By Kate Baggaley

Colorful t-shirts made of soft bamboo

Bamboo fabric is less sustainable than you think

By Sara Kiley Watson

A carnivorous Mexican butterwort plant next to a non-carnivorous plant.

What killed my carnivorous plants?

By Ellen Airhart

4 reasons to let your lawn grow wild

4 reasons to let your lawn grow wild

By Angely Mercado

Meet the world’s newest carnivorous plant

Meet the world’s newest carnivorous plant

By Kate Baggaley

A ladybug on a leaf.

Fight household pests with a friendly army of plants and insects

By Ellen Airhart

Brown mushrooms growing on a green, mossy surface.

Grow your own mushrooms in a homemade terrarium

By Natalie Wallington

A carpet of moss next to a brown rock.

Why and how to grow your own moss garden

By Ellen Airhart

A stack of pancakes topped with berries and edible flowers, on a white plate atop a white tablecloth.

7 edible flowers and how to use them

By Natalie Wallington

inside of walnut

4 ways plant protein is healthier than animal protein

By Sara Chodosh

Close up to aloe vera plant

How to grow, harvest, preserve, and use aloe vera

By LaVonne Roberts

Orange jessamine flowers

Get to know the plant that showed up in the National Spelling Bee finals

By Purbita Saha

A person gardening in a wooden planter box.

Plant a garden that helps the planet by devouring carbon

By Ellen Airhart

A lawnmower, which you won't really need for a ground cover lawn, with a shovel and a broom for digging up your grass lawn.

It’s time to rip up your lawn and replace it with something you won’t need to mow

By Jean Feingold

Chinese banyan bonsai tree on bright yellow

The beauty and science of growing bonsai

By Stan Horaczek

A snake plant sitting in an open cardboard box, ready for shipping.

How to ship your beloved houseplants across the country without killing them

By Ellen Airhart

This plant spins its own woolen coat

This plant spins its own woolen coat

By Ellie Shechet

A human hand holds a common weed called a thale cress plant.

One of the most studied plants in the world can grow an extra organ

Indigenous languages hold the keys to medicinal forest libraries

Indigenous languages hold the keys to medicinal forest libraries

By Virginia Gewin

A bumble bee drinks nectar from a purple cone flower.

City gardens are abuzz with imperiled native bees

By Lauren Leffer

The Best Gardening Tools

The best garden tools for 2025

drakaea livida orchid being pollinated by a thynnine wasp

This incredibly rare orchid survives by making male beetles horny

By Sara Chodosh

a decapitated slug still alive

The process sea slugs use to regrow severed body parts is surprisingly common

Can you overdose on weed?

By Marion Renault

A mature cacao tree with the unripe fruits that are used to make chocolate

Cacao growers are bugging out about our chocolate supply

By DeWayne Shoemaker/The Conversation

A captive Gila monster in a glass case with its purple tongue sticking out

When scientific pursuits become death sentences

By Hannah Thomasy/Undark

Basket of pomegranate fruits with glass bottles of tea on a light purple and seagreen background

Four plants that are scientifically proven to be therapeutic

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

corpse flower from above

Corpse flowers across the country are swapping pollen to stay stinky

By Doug Johnson/Undark

large forest tree

Behold the world’s tallest trees

By Sara Kiley Watson

Four rows of repeated gifts for new plant parents: a pink cactus humidifer, bonsai scissors, a green ZZ plants in a white pot, and green and white plant lover socks.

20+ gifts to help your new plant parent friends grow their love of plants

By Helen Bradshaw

Tim Robinson illustration

Appalachia’s ginseng goldmine may not last much longer

By Emily Cataneo/Undark

a forest at night

Nights are warming faster than days. Here’s what that means for the planet.

What not to do with the mysterious seeds you received in the mail recently

By Sara Kiley Watson

rain dripping off a roof during a storm

Capturing rainwater is an easy way to save money and the planet

A blue agave plant

Five burning questions about tequila, answered

By Purbita Saha

A grizzly bear walking through the snow.

These survival tips might actually get you killed

By Keith McCafferty/Field & Stream

eucalyptus flower

Planting invasive species could make our carbon problem worse

cheetah chasing an antelope

Twelve powerful images to remind us how weird and wild the world is

By bioGraphic Editors

fungus-colonized plants

The challenge of keeping science alive during the COVID-19 shutdowns

By Kasson, Lovett & Rio/The Conversation

a selection of invasive, edible weeds on a gray surface, with a knife among them

Ten weeds you can eat

By Marie Viljoen/Saveur

garden lettuce growning in a pot.

How to start your own survival garden

By Tim MacWelch/ Outdoor Life

a cattle skull mounted on wood

Five surprising ways people have used (and are still using) bones

By John Kennedy

A small rodent scurries across the snow.

Snow is the only thing keeping some plants and animals from freezing to death

By Erin Blakemore

To remain hidden, these beetles sparkle like jewels

Your ‘basic’ fall leaf photos could serve as evidence of climate change

Your ‘basic’ fall leaf photos could serve as evidence of climate change

By Stephanie Spera/The Conversation

How China got the first seedling to sprout on the moon

How China got the first seedling to sprout on the moon

When plants cry out for help, their neighbors start screaming, too

When plants cry out for help, their neighbors start screaming, too

An intimate guide to the ferns from Netflix’s ‘Between Two Ferns’

An intimate guide to the ferns from Netflix’s ‘Between Two Ferns’

By Purbita Saha

The best wildlife photos of the year remind us that nature is amazing—and brutal

The best wildlife photos of the year remind us that nature is amazing—and brutal

By PopSci Editors

A hanging cluster of pokeweed berries

10 common plants that can hurt you