Water is vital for a plant to live and to grow healthily. From trees to dandelions, most plants have roots and a stem. Roots act like an anchor in the soil. They keep the plant in place and make ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants ... live in desert regions. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of the Earth's land ...

They can be found on land, in water, and even in the air ... to 10,000 millimetres of rain per year so the plants there have adapted to live in very wet conditions. Foxes are omnivores which ...

In fact, neither land plants nor ... the earliest plants. “Ultimately, fungi helped plants move away from being these marginal tiny little things on the water’s edge into large forests and ...

Gardeners who want to save water with wise irrigating techniques might consider an unusual approach: plant crops that don ... bred for its ability to grow under dry-land conditions with roots ...

Growing demand for food has polluted much of the world’s water ... of land from wild spaces to farming is driving biodiversity loss, as wild plants and animals have less space to live in.