Articles for tag: botany, ecology, Plant adaptations, Plant survival

a plant growing out of a rock wall

10 Remarkable Ways Plants Adapt and Survive in Extreme Environments

Suhail Ahmed

  On a frozen Antarctic rock, a lime-green crust clings stubbornly to stone. In the Sahara, a plant that looks dead for years suddenly unfurls after a single rare rain. High on industrial smokestacks, mosses quietly trap metal-laced dust and keep growing. These are not isolated oddities; they are case studies in nature’s most relentless ...