Extinction rates for plants range from 18 to 26 E/MSY, surpassing 500 times the natural rate. Yet, uncertainty remains high, as many plant species may persist unnoticed in dormant seed banks.

With each fern no wider than an inch, mosquito ferns turned a greenhouse into a frozen tundra for nearly a million years. Now ...

Inside an artificial greenhouse filled with plants, the surrounding glass traps ... For example, as the Ice Age progressed, scientists believe the amount of natural carbon dioxide in the ...

“Everyone knows that the woolly mammoth went extinct, but virtually no-one mentions the plants that were lost at the end of the last ice age,” says Prof Ulrike Herzschuh from the Alfred ...

More than 90 wetland plant species have emerged from the preserved ... at the end of the last Ice Age." The project was part of the Brecks Fen Edge and Rivers Landscape Partnership scheme, funded ...