Articles for tag: arid ecosystems, botany, climate adaptation, desert ecology, desert plants, drought survival, Environmental Science, photosynthesis, plant adaptation, water conservation

How Desert Plants Survive with Almost No Water - The Science of Adaptation

How Desert Plants Survive with Almost No Water – The Science of Adaptation

Jan Otte

Life in the desert seems impossible to most of us. Yet across the world’s harshest landscapes, remarkable plants not only survive but thrive in conditions that would quickly kill ordinary vegetation. These botanical survivors have developed some of the most ingenious water conservation strategies found anywhere in nature. Understanding how desert plants achieve this extraordinary ...

The Desert Plant That Drinks Fog

The Desert Plant That Drinks Fog

Gargi Chakravorty

  Imagine walking through the world’s driest desert and discovering plants that have learned to capture water from nothing more than morning mist. In places where not a drop of rain falls for months or even years, extraordinary botanical survivors have developed the most ingenious methods to harvest moisture directly from the air. These remarkable ...