Vegetation has been a key part of the Earth's surface for only about 450 million years. With the progression of the terrestrial landscape from bare surfaces to widespread coverage by plants ...

Warming alters plant germination timing, changing species dominance and reshaping ecosystems in unpredictable ways.

The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look at spore-like microfossils with characteristics that ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were ...

a doctoral student in Earth and planetary sciences at Yale and first and corresponding author of the new study. Indeed, scientists have long wondered why land plants did not emerge on Earth until 450 ...

Indeed, scientists have long wondered why land plants did not emerge on Earth until 450 million years ago, even though their progenitors, cyanobacteria, had been in existence for 2.7 billion years.

Indeed, scientists have long wondered why land plants did not emerge on Earth until 450 million years ago, even though their progenitors, cyanobacteria, had been in existence for 2.7 billion years.

Earth Skills — a continuing series of monthly ... sensory-rich experiences how to live in concert with the land, plants and animals around them, says ENC Vice President Lori Whalen.