Biodiversity

Dr. Lúcia Lohmann is a world-renowned botanist. She’s coming back to her second home, St. Louis, to tackle the climate crisis and lead a community institution as the Missouri Botanical Garden’s first woman president.

In Missouri, agriculture, urban development and man-made flood control measures have replaced 87% of the state’s original wetlands.

A recent study in the Global Change Biology journal highlights the correlation between neighborhood income levels and how many species one might see in those areas.

March 3 is the United Nations’ annual commemoration of World Wildlife Day, a time to highlight the importance of Earth’s natural resources and call for…

For nearly three decades, the Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center at the University of Missouri-St. Louis has bestowed its World Ecology Award on…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 28, 2012 - TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Peter and I are under the gathering clouds of Typhoon Jelawat,…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 8, 2011 - The Earth has more than 300,000 known plant species. With such variety, it's possible…

The Missouri Botanical Garden has helped put Charles Darwin’s personal library online for the first time.While Darwin’s manuscripts have been available…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 26, 2010 - Once every three months, Peter Raven pays a visit to his dermatologist. Summers spent…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 29, 2009 - Wednesday evening, an adventure-addicted group of men and women gathered at the…