Maxime Marquette
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How carnivorous plants digest their prey using electricity
The Venus flytrap, one of the most famous carnivorous plants in the world, closes its trap in just 100 milliseconds, an impressive
A third of the world's food depends on pollinating insects
Roughly 35 percent of global agricultural production intended for human food depends, at least partially, on pollination by insects, primarily bees, but
The boreal forest stores more carbon than all tropical forests combined
Stretching unbroken across Russia, Canada, and Scandinavia, the boreal forest, also known as the taiga, is the largest terrestrial biome on the
Did the world's glaciers really lose 408 billion tonnes of ice
An international scientific study has revealed that 2025 ranks among the worst years ever recorded for global glacier melt, with an estimated
Swiss glaciers ran out of all their winter snow before July
For the first time since glaciological measurements began, Swiss glaciers exhausted their entire reserve of winter snow before July 1, 2026. This
Bamboo can grow 91 centimeters in a single day
Hard to believe, and yet perfectly documented: certain species of giant bamboo hold the absolute world record for the fastest plant growth,
A 1,300-year-old lotus seed sprouted right before our eyes
Picture a seed buried in the mud of a dried-up lake, forgotten for more than a millennium, suddenly regaining the ability to
Some mole-rats actually farm their own food underground
When we think of agriculture, we picture fields, tractors, and humans bent over the soil for roughly ten thousand years. Yet certain
In the forest, trees talk to each other through an underground network
Picturing a forest as a simple collection of isolated trees locked in permanent competition for light now feels hopelessly outdated. Research led