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Plants & Animals

Plants & Animals

In his latest book, David George Haskell shows how flowers made our world

White and pink flowers on a barren rocky shore in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.

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Pocket gardens: The tiny urban oases with surprisingly big benefits

A pocket garden at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey.

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Can we bring back the butterflies?

Migrating monarch butterflies on a pine tree.

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Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo

Eight clones of Virolita, one of the most valuable polo mares of her generation, produced by the Argentine laboratory Kheiron Biotech in 2016. This was one of the first successful cases of multiple cloning of a high-performance horse.

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How farmers can help rescue water-loving birds

A flock of sandhill cranes in Louisiana.

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Rotten tricks: How hot and stinky plants woo pollinators

A collage of thermogenic plants, clockwise from top left: sago palm (Cycas revoluta); Eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), elephant-foot yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius), Yulan magnolia (Magnolia denudata), calico-flower (Aristolochia littoralis), American lotus (Nelumbo lutea), titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), dragon arum (Dracunculus vulgaris), Florida anise (Illicium floridanum), Rhizanthes lowii, dead-horse arum (Helicodiceros muscivorus).

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Screwworm threat returns to US: Why it matters

Cochliomyia hominivorax, also known as the New World screw-worm fly.

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Flying with whales: Drones are remaking marine mammal research

Aerial view of a tiny white drone hovering in the air above two huge blue whales, one smaller than the other, seen beneath the surface of the ocean. Cetacean scientists around the world are using this type of technology.

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Got invasive plants? Call a herd of goats

Two goats in a herd smiling happily eating invasive plants in a wide land.

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States that produce the most Christmas trees

Parent and child loading Christmas tree on to the roof of their car.