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The Mexican long-nosed bat, an elusive species, coevolved with agave, and faces an uncertain future as the number of plants declines.
bats

How Preserving Agave Could Help Save an Endangered Bat

Conservationists hope to protect the Mexican long-nosed bat by working with ranchers and other locals to preserve the plant it needs.
Janet Marinelli February 7, 2022
Gastro Obscura

Arkansas Black Apple

This dark, rare fruit lasts a very long time.
Silky sharks just below the surface near Darwin Island.
islands

Marine Life in the Galápagos Gets a New Protected 'Ocean Highway'

More room to roam for the islands' unique fauna.
Winnie Lee January 31, 2022
Edinburgh, Scotland

Roxburgh Court Tree Plaques

These plaques located in a court preserve a small piece of Edinburgh's history.
London, England

Cheapside Plane Tree

What might be the oldest living tree in London has survived fires, bombings, and estate agents.
Manitas flower
Toluca, Mexico

Árbol de Manitas (Little Hands Tree)

The curious flowers of this hard-to-find tree are shaped like little hands.
Reader Rock Garden
Calgary, Alberta

Reader Rock Garden

A Victorian garden in a harsh climate at the border of the prairies and foothills of the Canadian Rockies.
The quaking aspen known as Pando is one of the planet's largest and oldest living organisms.
forests

Pando, the World’s Largest Organism, Is Being Eaten by Deer

Utah's 106-acre stand of quaking aspen clones has survived for millennia, but faces threats large and small.
Richard Elton Walton December 6, 2021
The King and Queen's Knots
Stirling, Scotland

The King's Knot

These formal gardens were designed to be admired from the vantage point of the castle.
Trees suffering in the torture orchard.
trees

The ‘Torture Orchard’ Is a Testing Ground for the Coming Climate Crisis

Which trees will live and which ones will die?
Diana Hubbell November 18, 2021
An Apatani family and guests make tapyo around the hearth.
food

Without a Source for Salt, This Tribe Created a Delicious Substitute

The Apatani make tapyo from shrubs and ash.
Lavina Dsouza November 3, 2021
Ceunant Llennyrch National Nature Reserve in Wales is home to one of Britain's few remaining temperate rainforests.
forests

Mapping the Rainforests of Britain

The rainy island is home to some of the world's most diverse woodlands—but they are rapidly disappearing.
Richard Collett November 1, 2021
New Orleans, Louisiana

We Bite Rare & Unusual Plants

This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.
The Morettino's coffee plants in Palermo, Italy.
climate change

Climate Change and the Dream of Growing Coffee in Sicily

As temperatures rise, one family hopes to establish the world’s northernmost coffee plantation.
Lorenzo Tondo October 25, 2021
Sunnyside Conservatory
San Francisco, California

Sunnyside Conservatory

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.
View of one of the cactus lined paths at the botanical garden.
Cadereyta de Montes, Mexico

Jardín Botánico Regional de Cadereyta

An alluring, arid botanical garden home to a bewildering variety of cacti both endangered and common.
carnivorous plants

This ‘Cryptically Carnivorous’ Plant Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight, Waiting for Flesh

The western false asphodel has an appetite for insects, but it’s not a great time to be a meat-eating plant.
Jessica Leigh Hester September 17, 2021
Port Renfrew, British Columbia

Avatar Grove

This patch of old-growth forest is home to Canada's gnarliest tree.