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Habitats with fewer plant species produce less oxygen, food, fiber overall.
Red pigments in leaves protect them from sun, so tree can collect more nutrients for winter storage.
Tradable permits, aka cap-and-trades, could preserve land.
International Atomic Energy Agency looks ahead.
An invasive marsh plant conquers leafy enemies with toxic acid.
Plants warn each other against predators, scientists find.
Cycads use odors to attract and repel insects to trick them into pollinating.
IUCN's 2007 Red List details animals and plants threatened with extinction.
Changes in atmosphere's chemistry show up in wolves' bones.
Only about 10 percent of them are known, scientists estimate.
Ozone could damage plants and block an important carbon sink.
Insects eat native plants but let weeds grow.
A natural Sistine chapel shows not religious paintings but images of sprawling tree trunks and fallen leaves.
Plants recognize relatives and are less competitive with them.
Scientists identify nutrient source that turns ocean’s desert regions into oases.
Deceptively attractive, some common <a href=http://www.livescience.com/othernews/050526_flower_power.html target=new>flowers and plants</a> can give you <a href=http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060622_migraine_zapper.html target=new>headaches</a>,
Study debunks earlier research pointing to plants emitting methane.
Green thumb or not, most of us have at least one houseplant because it links us back to nature, a new study claims.
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