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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a forest as a simple collection of isolated trees locked in permanent competition for light now feels hopelessly outdated.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
The largest living organism on Earth is a fungus hiding under Oregon
We tend to imagine size records in the living world belonging to whales or giant sequoias, never to a simple fungus. Yet
Understanding the Loss of Coral Reefs the Size of Cambodia
It's sometimes easier to grasp an ecological disaster by comparing it to something concrete rather than a simple percentage. That's exactly what
Does the Amazon Rainforest Really Make Its Own Rain
The idea that a forest could literally produce its own climate sounds like something straight out of a science-fiction novel. Yet this
The World's Oldest Tree Was Already Alive When the Pyramids Were Built
It's hard to imagine a living thing that already existed when the first pyramids were rising from the ground. Yet in the
16,000 New Species Discovered Every Year on Earth
You might think that in the age of satellites and artificial intelligence, there isn't much left to discover on our own planet.