Our planet is home to all kinds of different plants, and they help make a lot of the oxygen we breathe. To find out how plants make oxygen, I asked my friend Balasaheb Sonawane. Sonawane is a ...

For years, we’ve admired plants for their ability to cleanse the air and help fight air pollution. However, our green ally might be contributing to air pollution in an unexpected way. While they may ...

How do plants breathe through stomata? Key regulators of stomata are plant vacuoles, fluid-filled organelles bound by a single membrane called the tonoplast. Plant vacuoles are fluid-filled organelles ...

Researchers begin to uncover the mechanism that enables wetland plants to survive, hoping to develop agricultural crops that are more resilient to extreme weather caused by climate change. Plants ...

For those of us with seasonal depression or anxiety, houseplants can offer immense comfort. In fact, adding loads of leafy things to your home has been shown to boost mood and relieve anxiety — in ...

It looks like an ordinary pothos, a common houseplant that you might already own. But a new plant called the Neo P1 was born in a lab: It’s been genetically edited to clean nearly 30 times as much air ...