El Color De By Alina Fresquez Patrick Early this summer, I spent two weeks in Cuba with a close friend and collaborator, Elle Rinaldi, visiting friends and taking in the vibrant land we hadn’t seen since we studied there before the pandemic hit. Together, we saw the complicated j … | Continue reading
Worldly Realities and Our Shared Home News from the World’s First International Plant Health Conference By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! In September 2022, a time in the UK when the government had just suspended their tree planting program around the country due … | Continue reading
Jordi Cueto-Felgueroso Arocha CC BY-SA 4.0 Copal & the Day of the Dead By Nuri McBride Sign up for our monthly newsletter! With the success of movies like Disney’s Coco, it is clear that the English-speaking world is more familiar with Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) than ever. … | Continue reading
Land plants are green because their photosynthetic pigments reflect green light, even though those wavelengths hold the most energy. Scientists finally understand why. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis. Plants ignore the mo … | Continue reading
The ancient Mesopotamians and Assyrians developed scented oils suitable for hair, beard, and body using fragrant plants, flowers, resins, and spices. Relief panel (detail), ca. 883–859 B.C., Neo-Assyrian. Gypsum alabaster. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of John D. Rockefeller J … | Continue reading
The pigs Frankie and Fífa / Photo credit: Alžběta Procházka The following is a chapter from Viktorie Hanišová’s book, Beton a hlína [in English: Concrete and Clay], a collection of interviews with individuals practicing eco-friendly and sustainable ways of living in urban environ … | Continue reading
World Sensorium: The World Social Olfactory Sculpture “The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.”Nietzsche World Sensorium, First Record, Preservation Edition, 2000World Social Olfactory Sculpture of Aromatic Phytogenic MaterialAmber Borosilicate Bottle, 4 x 2 inch … | Continue reading
Billion-Year-Old Algae and Newer Genes Hint at Land Plants’ Origin An unearthed fossil and genomic discoveries are filling important gaps in scientists’ understanding of how primitive green algae eventually evolved into land vegetation. By Dana Najjar Sign up for our monthly news … | Continue reading
How We Perceive Nature Through Our Sense of Smell By Andreas Keller Sign up for our monthly newsletter! This article offers a glance into the olfactory world of nature, in which we first discuss nature and its odors, then describe the scents that these odors produce. The differen … | Continue reading
Save the Soil By Sadhguru Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Jagadish "Jaggi" Vasudev, better known as Sadhguru, is a mystic and soil health advocate who spoke at The World Economic Forum (WEF) 2022 about the state of our dying soil and what policy makers and the global populati … | Continue reading
When Plants Go to War In the fight against insects, plants have evolved an arsenal of ingenious chemical defenses. By Mike NewlandIllustrations by Seth Williams Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Compared to the hectic rush of our bipedal world, a plant’s life may appear an oasi … | Continue reading
Do Mushrooms Really Use Language to Talk to Each Other? A Fungi Expert Investigates By Katie Field Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Nearly all of Earth’s organisms communicate with each other in one way or another, from the nods and dances and squeaks and bellows of animals, t … | Continue reading
Pollen can suppress how the body’s immune system responds to viruses. Pollen Can Raise your Risk of COVID-19 and the season is getting longer thanks to climate change Interview with Lewis Ziska Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Exposure to pollen can make you more susceptible t … | Continue reading
When Plants and Their Microbes Are Not in Sync, the Results Can Be Disastrous By Sheng-Yang He Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Many of us have heard about inflammatory bowel disease, a debilitating condition that is associated with an abnormal collection of microbes in the hu … | Continue reading
As temperatures rise, will species have enough habitat to move to suitable ground? bonnyboy/flickr, CC BY Can “Climate Corridors” Help Species Adapt to Warming World? By Jenny McGuire Sign up for our monthly newsletter! If you flip over a log in a forest in the southeastern U.S., … | Continue reading
Corn Field in Arizona, 1941, Ansel Adams The Power of Harmony: Musical, Spiritual and Environmental By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Thomas Banyacya (1909-1999), was a Native American Hopi traditional leader, and spokesman for the elders. When I arrived at his h … | Continue reading
What the Meadow Teaches Us Feeling is the physics of the organic world. By Andreas Weber Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Anyone who believes that life is a battlefield full of individual warriors should go out into the meadows on a spring night. There, you can learn that the … | Continue reading
NASA CC BY Taking Plants Off Planet How do they grow in zero gravity? By Anna-Lisa Paul and Robert Ferl Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Astronaut Cady Coleman harvests one of our plants on Space Shuttle Columbia. NASA, CC BY Gravity is a constant for all organisms on Earth. I … | Continue reading
Core module for Forgiva Enterprise connecting Forgiva Server to Forgiva Webclient. - GitHub - Sceptive/forgiva-integrator: Core module for Forgiva Enterprise connecting Forgiva Server to Forgiva We... | Continue reading