When sunlight hits clouds or other atmospheric particles, it scatters and becomes diffuse light. Unlike direct sunlight, ...

A new study investigates how diffuse light affects evapotranspiration and carbon uptake across forest, grassland, shrub, and ...

Plants serve many purposes, like attracting pollinators, but this list of beautiful species has a very important job -- ...

Fakahatchee Strand (go ahead, practice saying it a few times – fuh-kuh-HATCH-ee) is the kind of place that makes you forget ...

The time-honored tradition of humans looking to the natural world can help us survive difficult times.

Plant a pollinator garden to attract bees. If they have a smorgasbord of floral selections, they are more likely to stay away from the hummingbird feeder. For season-long feeding, plant a mixture of ...

Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides ...

In fantasy worlds, trees like the Lord of the Rings’ Ents are agile and mobile. In the real world, they’re slow.

Imagine waking up one morning to find that Earth’s atmosphere has vanished—gone, as if erased by an invisible hand. Suddenly, ...

The technology which combines solar PV panels and agriculture is gaining ground. IEC Standards for solar photovoltaic (PV) ...

Most life on Earth relies on the sun's energy ... microbial organisms without a true nucleus. However, foraminifera are eukaryotes, meaning they have a well-defined nucleus, which houses an organism's ...