Plants

Tammy Proctor is joined by Sarah Neville, author of "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade." She explains what an herbal is and remedies for various conditions.

Plants use toxic chemicals to protect themselves from insects, herbivores, and pathogens. But they also need to attract animals to carry their seeds. Here's how researchers are exploring those needs.

Utah State University researchers are collaborating with other institutions to solve the ecological mysteries of seed dispersal in tropical ecosystems.

New research shows that a fossilized plant from the Green River Formation is even stranger than scientists originally thought.

By planting clusters of hardy, nutritious plants on grazing lands, ranchers can reduce the greenhouse gases cattle produce, draw carbon from the atmosphere, and improve the diets of their herds.

For 44 years I have spent considerable time in the company of the desert creatures that reside outside my home in St. George Utah.

Recent research from Colorado State University shows that plants will pause photosynthesis in smoky and polluted environments.

I’d like to tell you a crime story. But is it still a crime story if it’s about the natural world? I’ll tell it and then let you decide for yourself.

Every August, volunteers at the Mendon Meadow Preserve count and record the current number of Ute ladies' tresses orchids, a flower listed by the U.S. Fish Wildlife Service as threatened.

Forty years ago, USU's Intermountain Herbarium relocated to a basement for a 9-12 month stay. They're still there, and the basement is flooded — threatening hundreds of thousands of native plants.