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In this excerpt from "The Story of CO2," Peter Brennan explains how changes in the Earth's ecosystem led to fire, which in turn led our ancestors to become the "fire apes."
Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered.
The technology could yield "made-to-order resistance genes" to protect crops against pathogens and pests.
Quantum physics is starting to show up in unexpected places. Indeed, it is at work in animals, plants, and our own bodies.
Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.
According to Peter Ward's "Medea hypothesis," photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.
Goodbye, Arabica? Learn to love Liberica.
Its apples taste bad, but institutions all over the world want a descendant or clone of the tree, anyway.
Overwintering is profoundly stressful for trees. So why do they bother?
Since our arrival, humans have driven a seven-fold drop in the mass of wild land mammals.
Pando, which is Latin for "I spread," is a single organism spanning some 106 acres.
Parasites aren’t limited to just worms and ticks. Even some plants like to feed off others — and they perhaps could help fight invasive species.