From growing smaller leaves to shape-shifting its insides, a desert flowering plant goes all in to flourish in the harshest of conditions.

Over hundreds of millions of years, Earth could return to a lifeless state, with continents merging, ozone depletion, and CO2 dropping, ending photosynthesis.

Arctic sea ice has declined by more than 42% since 1979, when regular satellite monitoring began. As the ice grows thinner ...

When summer fades and fall emerges, lush green tree leaves give way to a variety of warm hues in foliage that mark the ...

Dr. Steven P. Romberger, Edward J. Smerek Chair of Mathematics, the Sciences, and Technology and associate professor of ...

By gaining a deeper understanding of the workings of this process, scientists can invent state-of-the-art technologies in the ...

So, plants are way smarter than we give them credit for. Turns out, the way they grab sunlight and turn it into energy is a lot more complex, and frankly, cooler, than just simple chemistry.

The atmosphere of Earth during the Mesozoic era, between 252 and 66 million years ago, contained far more carbon dioxide than it does today and total photosynthesis from plants around the world was ...

We’ve long marveled at how efficiently plants convert sunlight into energy—but no one guessed they were using quantum mechanics to do it. In this episode, we speak with Greg Engel, a pioneering ...

Quantifying global terrestrial photosynthesis is essential to understanding the global carbon cycle and the climate system. Remote sensing has played a pivotal role in advancing our understanding of ...

The bottom of a cut-out block of 2 m thick ice covered with ice algae, placed atop the sea ice of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Credit: Lars Chresten Lund-Hansen Melting sea ice changes not only how much ...