I just love savanna plants! When new students start at our University of Guam Island Conservation Lab, one of the first things we do is show them the beauty of Guåhan’s native and endemic ...

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WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — Firefighters are still on location carrying out cooling down operations for a massive fire at a family-operated warehouse in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland that started on ...

Animal populations from urban areas show significantly higher resilience to stressful environmental conditions. The mussel and crustacean species studied were able to adapt to disturbed environments, ...

Urban habitats are very different from natural habitats and pose new challenges for animals and plants. Until now, little was known about how populations of the same species evolve in habitats with ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — Colorado's forests store a massive amount of carbon, but dying trees -- mostly due to insects and disease -- have caused the state's forests to emit more carbon than they ...

Todd Michael, Salk Institute for Biological Studies Unlike animals which can migrate to find more hospitable conditions, plants are largely rooted in place. Their dispersal is slow and limited, so ...

Plant genetics deals with heredity in plants, specifically mechanisms of hereditary transmission and variation of inherited characteristics. Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number ...

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Other than the protection of the dark, humid forest itself, rainforest trees and plants have few defenses or adaptations to fire, and why should they? Until the arrival of fire-wielding humans, the ...