The BriefThe Desert Botanical Garden is running a seed bank program to save endangered Arizona desert plants like orchids and ...

(WJW) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fears if action isn’t taken, the rare ghost orchid could soon be extinct. The FWS is now proposing to list the swamp-dwelling plant as an endangered species ...

Scientists found a new species of fairy plant in Malaysia, Thismia selangorensis, that is already critically endangered.

There's an old saying that everything in Australia wants to eat you – and this apparently includes plants, with the island a ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released its draft Insecticide Strategy, a guidance document establishing a framework to protect more than 850 endangered plants and animals ...

A biologist finally saw the rare Rafflesia hasseltii bloom after a 13-year search in Sumatra's rainforests. This elusive 'corpse flower' is known for ...

Since passage of the Endangered Species Act 50 years ago, more than 1,700 plants, mammals, fish, insects and other species in the U.S. have been listed as threatened or endangered with extinction. Yet ...