Meet a scientist tracking cactus poaching in the Atacama Desert

Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life, first on family trips to the Chilean coast and later as a researcher studying the impacts of…

A hunt for fungi might bring this orchid back from the brink

If you ever come across a Cooper’s black orchid in the wild, you probably would mistake it for a stick — or perhaps an odd potato if you dig a…

Ultrasound reveals trees’ drought-survival secrets

The tissues of living trees may hold the secrets of why some can recover after drought and others die. But those tissues are challenging to assess in mature forests. After…