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  • 19 November 2024

    How do herbarium specimens help save plants from extinction?

    Paul Figg, Dr Juan Viruel
  • A close-up view of the monkey orchid flowers, the petals are shaped like a monkey
    7 November 2024

    Monkeys at the Millennium Seed Bank

    Robin Horton, Sarah Gattiker, Stephanie M H Miles, Dr Ilia J Leitch
  • A blue gloved hand places an orchid into a plastic tube
    31 October 2024

    What is digital sequence information (DSI)?

    Robin Horton, Elianne Lee
  • A bunch of green grapes, also known as white grapes growing on a vine
    24 October 2024

    How grape seed could keep your hair colour bright

  • Delegates standing and applauding in front of a blue background for COP15 and the flags of Canada and China
    21 October 2024

    What is COP16 and why is it important?

    Robin Horton
  • Photo of Kew's herbarium when it was in Hunter House
    18 October 2024

    The ghost stories of Kew Gardens

    Saffron Mackay, Eddie Johnston
  • William Thomas March print
    18 October 2024

    Have you heard of William Thomas March?

    Olivia Beavers
  • A view of treetops from below, showing distinct gaps between adjacent tree canopies
    2 October 2024

    The dark matter of botany

    Robin Horton
  • A herbarium orchid specimen gets its barcode scanned by a digitiser
    30 September 2024

    Orchid collection digitised! What interesting orchids have we uncovered?

    Paul Figg
  • A person on a paramotor in the sky over faraway hills
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    25 September 2024

    Watch: Extreme botany - paramotorists soar across Peru desert

    Lydia Shellien-Walker
  • A view over a cloud forest in the Dominican Republic
    20 September 2024

    Forgotten magnolia forests of Hispaniola

    Silvia Bacci, Dr Diana Carolina Acosta Rojas, Michael Way
  • Purple flower spikes growing in a meadow
    13 August 2024

    In pictures: the celestial meadows of Armenia

    Lydia Shellien-Walker