Plants

The St. Louis Carnivorous Plant Society is full of enthusiasts who prefer meat-eating plants over the ones with strict solar diets. It will hold its annual sale at the Missouri Botanical Gardens on Saturday.

Peat bogs sequester a massive amount of the Earth's carbon dioxide. But even as scientists work to better understand bogs' sequestration, the wetlands are under threat.

Scientists say amid climate change and biodiversity loss, the world’s herbaria could hold the keys to overcoming the crises in their folders of dried plant specimens. But their future is in question amid cuts to research and education funding.

Nearly half of the world’s plant species are at risk of extinction. New research from the Missouri Botanical Garden aims to better predict which species can be grown outdoors in St. Louis.

Webster Groves is wrapping up a pilot project to see if goats are an option to help eliminate invasive plants throughout the city.

With the United Nations and New York City hosting Climate Week 2019 this week, climate change has been on the minds of many. But what does climate change…

Scientists at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and Washington University are studying the long-term consequences of exposing plants to high levels…

There is a movement growing among health advocates to better understand how more nutritious food can help combat chronic illnesses and pharmaceutical drug…

While in 2014 just 1 percent of U.S. consumers claimed to be vegan, in 2017, about 6 percent made that claim. With a 600 percent increase in just three…

This week, in the hallowed halls of the historic Old Courthouse in St. Louis, a local woodworker sued a shrub.In an educational mock trial held Wednesday,…