Environment
Fig trees may benefit climate by turning carbon dioxide into stone
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Plants make up about 80 per cent of all living matter on Earth by mass. They capture energy from sunlight in a process called photosynthesis, taking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and producing oxygen. Humans grow some plants on an enormous scale to provide us with food, drugs, fuel and building materials. We have modified plants through artificial selection for thousands of years, and now use genetic technologies to create plants with chosen characteristics.
Life
Should you water your orchid with ice cubes?
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Life
Plant skin grafts could result in new kinds of vegetables
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Life
Why you don't need to worry about 'over-potting' your plants
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Life
Gripping account of how plants and animals shaped each other
Culture
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'Plants are artists' at new Saatchi exhibition celebrating flora
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Life
51¶¯Âþ recommends the corpse flower at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Culture
Life
The science behind the gardening hack of adding aspirin to plant water
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Environment
Rice variant slashes planet-warming methane emissions by 70 per cent
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Life
An orchid uses a finger-like appendage to pollinate itself
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Environment
Glyphosate-resistant weeds have evolved in the UK for the first time
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Life
Nerve-racking tale of reviving wild cocoa to make amazing chocolate
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