An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps ...

Temperature plays the biggest role in where plants can grow. Warmer conditions allow more plants to survive in new places. Other factors like rainfall and soil also matter, but temperature has the ...

A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps ...

A "strange" prehistoric plant species is the lone representative of a mysterious group of organisms that no longer exists, scientists have discovered. The first evidence of the species—in the form of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers found this by overlaying maps of Indigenous people’s lands (IPLs) with recently published of millions of alien species from around the ...

The spread of species beyond their native habitat is a human-made environmental change on a global scale. Among vascular plants, over 16,000 species have now permanently settled in foreign countries.

Invasive alien species like lantana camara, prosopis juliflora and water hyacinth have caused mass degradation of native ...

A study from Cornell University discovered that a particular purple “light fingerprint” could be indicative of ...