Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ever since I saw the Metropolitan Museum’s stunning show of Ellsworth Kelly’s botanical drawings, I have been ogling ...

Facing projections of spiking energy demand, U.S. states are pressing for ways to build new power plants faster as policymakers increasingly worry about protecting their residents and economies from ...

Artist Annalee Davis was walking in fields once used for sugarcane in her Barbados homeland when she spotted unfamiliar plants. “I was taught to see them as weeds but now I understand their value ...

The art of documenting plants and flowers is having a resurgence, with more and more people wanting to draw what they see rather than take photos. Illustrations of native Australian plants and flowers ...

What limits the ability of plants to draw water from dry soil? That's the question California State University, Fullerton plant biologist H. Jochen Schenk and his collaborators addressed in a study ...

The research group discovered that between the ages of 4 and 7 children are already starting to associate the plant world with the animal world when asked to draw plants. The researchers studied the ...

They’re posted on fences and sign posts near the New River in Fort Lauderdale; you’ll find them on some Himmarshee Street restaurant counters, too. Amid the historic markers, boisterous eateries and ...

In a futuristic leap for energy harvesting technology, researchers have unveiled the development of "power plants," which are tiny, leaf-shaped generators that harness energy from wind and rain. These ...

Researchers in Britain have discovered that certain plants actually produce caffeine to attract bees and help in pollination. Scientists at the University of Sussex said they thought the plants ...

Margareta Pertl has been a botanical illustrator for 20 years. She lives in Vienna and Dublin, but spends much of her time traveling to places where she can capture the likeness of the plant world. We ...