While steeping, tea leaves soak up lead ions from water ... and white teas brewed from the Camellia sinensis plant as well as the herbal teas rooibos and chamomile. After steeping the tea leaves ...

Plants can absorb plastic particles directly from the air. Particles in the air can enter leaves through various pathways, such as through structures on the leaf surface called the stomata and ...

New plant diseases are becoming increasingly prevalent, requiring growers to adopt more proactive management strategies.

Nankai University researchers have found that plant leaves can directly absorb microplastics (MPs) from the atmosphere, leading to a widespread presence of plastic polymers in vegetation.

Read the paper: Leaf absorption contributes to accumulation of microplastics in plants Plants can absorb plastic particles directly from the air. Particles in the air can enter leaves through ...

Don't be over-eager to transplant seedlings into the garden before they are ready. These quick and easy checks will help ...

Raising a Swiss cheese plant can be an extremely gratifying practice, watching as each new set of leaves gradually grows and develops a series of naturally occurring holes in its foliage. This ...

And those tiny plastic bits have made their way into everything from soils to the human brain. A new study has now shown that airborne microplastics can even penetrate plant leaves. Reporting in ...

Technically lead plant is a shrub, but never gets larger than 3 feet, so it can act as a tall 30-inch perennial. Once a lead plant is established, it is long-lived, and heat and drought tolerant.

That disaster helped lead to the first federal standards for coal ash disposal ... The updated guidance says enforcement at ...