Watch a Nicotiana rustica (Aztec tobacco) plant grow from seed to flower in just 60 days. This powerful tobacco species ...

A drug derived from a plant native to the Australian rainforest may prove to be a new weapon against cancer, according to the AFP. QBiotics Ltd has released a statement announcing that a drug made ...

San Diego County seems an unlikely place to find a rainforest. But go to Mardy Darian's property in Vista, and you can feel like you've been transported to Colombia or Madagascar. Producers Guillermo ...

Clarence is at the Sydney Royal Botanic Garden to meet the expert in charge of conserving some of our threatened rainforest species. Dr Karen Sommerville is a Rainforest Conservation Scientist and ...

Award-winning garden designer Zoe Claymore said it was exciting to know the garden would help to safeguard these rainforests ...

Colombia today announced the creation of a rainforest reserve dedicated to the protection of medicinal plants. The Orito Ingi-Ande Medicinal Flora Sanctuary encompasses 10,626 hectares of biologically ...

The researchers discovered that a rainforest vine, pollinated by bats, has evolved dish-shaped leaves with such conspicuous echoes that nectar-feeding bats can find its flowers twice as fast by ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its ...

Researchers at Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología, or UTEC, in Perù have figured out a new way to draw electricity from plants, which they have delightfully dubbed “plant lamps.” As the video ...

Sir David Attenborough takes a plants-eye view of life in a rainforest. Sir David Attenborough takes a plants-eye view of life in a rainforest, a world of stunning beauty but also fierce competition.