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Instead, high temperatures seem to harm plants indirectly, by raising VPD and thus the dryness of the air. Plant leaves take in carbon dioxide via mouth-like leaf cells called stomata, but those ...

In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the ...

Brazil has secured its place as the most biodiverse country on Earth, home to nearly 13% of all known animal and plant ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, ...

They found that, even with improvements in agricultural productivity (due to technological improvements like new seed ...

Discovery of illegal palm crops comes as Grupo BBF grapples with financial problems sparked by warnings over its human rights record ...

The crowning jewel is Quito’s 17th-century Old Town, a heaving historical quarter so impeccably preserved that it was the first city in the world to be accorded UNESCO World Heritage Status. Arriving ...

Non-native plants, such as rhododendron ponticum are a major threat to fragile rainforest ecological communities. Kept unchecked, rhododendron spreads rapidly and shades and supresses all other plants ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian coffee producers in the country's Cerrado Mineiro, a stronghold for growing Arabica beans, are testing Conilon varieties amid climate change and other concerns ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian coffee producers in the country's Cerrado Mineiro, a stronghold for growing Arabica beans, are testing Conilon varieties amid climate change and other concerns, Nestle's ...

We have five greenhouses on two acres and more than 3,000 plants. ... coffee, black pepper, and vanilla. The Machelia southern magnolia is a tropical magnolia that can withstand the Florida heat.