https://phys.org/ en-us Latest news from The New York Botanical Garden In the global effort to combat climate change, large-scale, plant-based strategies such as planting forests and cultivating biofuels are an increasingly important part of countries' plans to reduce their overall carbon emissions, but a study in the journal Science finds that well-intended strategies could have unforeseen impacts on biodiversity and that, in general, restoring forests has the most beneficial effect on wildlife. https://phys.org/news/2025-01-reforestation-based-climate-mitigation-strategies.html Plants & Animals Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:10:10 EST news656928602 An international team of researchers, including a scientist at The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), has documented and described seven rare new plant species with brightly colored flowers that are only found in highly threatened forests of the Andes Mountains in Peru. https://phys.org/news/2024-03-species-highly-threatened-cloud-forests.html Plants & Animals Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:06:16 EST news629049973 Drawing on nearly five decades of experience, Professor Sir Ghillean Prance, one of the seminal scientific explorers of the Amazon rain forest in modern times, chronicles some of his most significant and fascinating expeditions in That Glorious Forest: Exploring the Plants and Their Indigenous Uses in Amazonia, now available from The New York Botanical Garden Press. https://phys.org/news/2014-11-intrepid-scientific-explorer-recounts-lifetime.html Plants & Animals Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:15:41 EST news335726131 As Myanmar emerges from decades of upheaval and isolation, The New York Botanical Garden has launched an ambitious conservation and training program to document the country's remarkably rich plant life, build the country's capacity to carry out plant research, and promote the sustainable use of its forests. https://phys.org/news/2014-06-myanmar-rich-biodiversity-major-goal.html Ecology Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:40:23 EDT news321640811 In a major advance for the sustainable use of a critical natural resource, The New York Botanical Garden and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) today released the most comprehensive catalogue of the rattan species found in three Southeast Asian countries, including data that makes it possible to determine how much rattan can be harvested without depleting natural stocks of these versatile, economically important plants. https://phys.org/news/2014-02-first-ever-mekong-rattan-species-aims.html Ecology Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:15:20 EST news311602500 Marking a milestone achievement in the global effort to make scientific collections widely available online, The New York Botanical Garden recently added the two-millionth plant specimen to its digital research collection, part of an ambitious project to digitize the 7.3 million dried plant specimens in its William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, the largest herbarium in the Western hemisphere. https://phys.org/news/2013-10-million-nybg-digitization-major-milestone.html Plants & Animals Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:17:09 EDT news300010609 To speed up the process of identifying threatened and endangered plant species, a team of New York Botanical Garden scientists has developed a streamlined method for evaluating the conservation status of large numbers of plant species, using information from plant research collections and Geographic Information Systems technology. https://phys.org/news/2012-08-triage-scientists-rapid-species-technique.html Ecology Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:17:15 EDT news264356225 The palms that Vietnamese villagers weave into hats, many varieties of lichens that depend on the pristine environment of the Great Smoky Mountains, and small, shrub-like trees that are threatened by development and deforestation in Brazil were among the scores of plant and fungus species that scientists at The New York Botanical Garden discovered and described in the course of one year. https://phys.org/news/2012-06-scientists-nybg-species-life-earth.html Plants & Animals Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:39:49 EDT news258136727