Our penchant for displaying cut flowers also displays our conflicting attitude toward nature—the urge to at once admire and destroy its beauty. “An average 21st-century human wishes to bring nature ...

A growing number of home gardeners are switching to self-watering systems, and many are seeing a noticeable drop in plant ...

What’s in a plant? Humans admire them, eat them and rely on them for oxygen release, carbon sequestration, animal habitat and more. But a plant is more than meets the eye. Beneath the soil, its root ...

For 450 million years, plants and soil fungi have been trading partners. The fungi weave through plant roots, delivering phosphorus and other soil minerals in exchange for sugars and fats produced by ...