How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were ...

A coal mine is so interesting, because you always find fossil plants there. This Bigar site became a field laboratory. Each year, I teach a field course there on geological mapping. I now spend ...

The earliest known fossil of a terrestrial plant that shows almost its entire structure has gone on display for the first time in the world at an exhibition in Tokyo. Although it was discovered ...

Talen Energy is going to keep two of its fossil-fired power plants online a littler longer than expected. Talen announced that it, PJM Interconnection, and a “broad coalition” of the Maryland ...

An environmentally-friendly preparation of plant material from pine could serve as a substitute for petroleum-based chemicals in polyurethane foams. The innovation could lead to more environmentally ...