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Botanical shyness

Crown shyness: let our realms stay apart

India was a tree planting laboratory for 200 years – here are the results

Students of MSRIM make 15,000 seed balls near Bengaluru

‘Given the overwhelming political and technical consensus, the government needs to approach the issue of HT crops transparently and robustly with an emphasis on precaution’

A push for GM mustard disregarding science, the law

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Living room with decorative palm, sofa and table

Home is where the plants are

(Clockwise from left) Sela macaque (Macaca selai); Calanthe lamellosa, an orchid species; Glischropus meghalayanus, a species of bamboo dwelling bat; Nandadevia pusalkar, a genus common throughout the foothills and warm outer valleys of the Uttarakhand Himalayas; Ficedula zanthopygia, yellow-rumped flycatcher. Photo: Special Arrangement

India adds 664 animal species to its faunal database in 2022, 339 taxa to its flora

Shiv Sahay Singh

Mangrove plant seedlings are seen in the mangrove nursery project to mitigate climate risk, in Basra, Iraq, June 21, 2023.

Iraq plants mangrove forest to fight climate disaster

The characteristic of being arranged in spirals that adhere to a numerical sequence called the Fibonacci sequence.

The 400 million-year-old fossil changing our understanding of mathematical patterns in nature

Sandy Hetherington,Holly-Anne Turner

Plants and paintings seen at the Velachery-St Thomas Mount MRTS underpass in Chennai

Chennai Corporation to seek corporate support to launch beautification drive with native species of plants

The Hindu Bureau

California Buckwheat flowers bloom as part of the University of California Riverside Phyto Myco Remediation Study, using native plants and fungi to test sustainable soil clean-up solutions of sites known as brownfields that are contaminated with hazardous metals and chemicals, in a vacant lot in Los Angeles, California on May 19, 2023.

Fungi and plants clean up California pollution

Dried roses being used at Kokūn

A peek at Kokūn’s zero-waste, naturally-dyed apparel

Image for representational purposes only.

Report sees increase in consumption of plant-based food products

The Hindu Bureau

Researchers have discovered a new species of tree in Arunachal Pradesh. Image for Representation.

Researchers discover new species of tree in Arunachal Pradesh

Pro tips for summer renovations

Home improvement | The DIY summer project

Sujatha Shankar Kumar

Yerevan, Armenia - April 23, 2022: A building of yellow and red colors next to the park in the center of Yerevan

Mature trees in demand

Sriram Aravamudan

At the botanical garden at Palode, near Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Botanical gardens and life on earth

Kamal Bawa,Vinita Gowda

Most people appreciate how pretty flowers and trees look and know photosynthesis is essential to life. But our mental and physical connection to plantlife runs deeper than you might expect.

How plants can change your state of mind

It is the time of year when the rosy trumpet tree (tabebuia rosea) is in bloom. An example from D’ Silva Road in Mylapore, on April 13

Come April, this unlikely ‘property owner’ at D’Silva Road hogs all the attention

Prince Frederick

Cycas pectinata, listed as vulnerable in the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List, is the only cycad species found in Bhutan.

Plant with Jurassic link under stress in Bhutan

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