Some 800,000 dried plant specimens from the 150-year-old Singapore Herbarium are being digitised using Picturae’s conveyor belt imaging system. Photojournalist Shintaro Tay takes a behind-the-scenes ...

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Jerry Jenkins’ new book, “Field Guide to the Woody Plants of the Northern Forest,” is a monumental ecological and botanical reference work ...

A team of biologists in Australia has developed a scanning device to accurately detect exactly how potent a cannabis plant is ...

The spending bill that ended the government shutdown threatens hemp products and led to confusion around marijuana legality.

The park's Trees for the Downs campaign has included planting 3,500 disease-resistant elms which provide habitats for ...

Discover the most poisonous plants that could be in your home or garden, learn how to identify them, and find out why some ...

A review by Professor Abdul Shukor JURAIMI’s team from Universiti Putra Malaysia points out that hyperspectral imaging ...

It was 2006 and Ismail Ebrahim, a botanist with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), was worried. While ...

Invasive species are eating through Indiana forests and front lawns. Here are 5 species you might have growing in your yard uninvited.

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