Image made with elements from Canva. Based on a phytomining image from ARPA-E. Scientists are exploring a somewhat unusual green energy solution: mining metals from the earth using plants. Typically, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: For more than three decades, scientists have explored ways to leverage certain metal-producing powers of hyperaccumulators, a family of more than 700 ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Wired. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. “In soil that contains roughly 5 percent nickel—that is pretty ...

Hyperaccumulators are unusual plants that can absorb much larger amounts of metal compounds in their leaves and stems than normal plants, and they are very useful for cleaning up contaminated land.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Background and Aims We characterized the relationship between soil and leaf concentrations of selenium in a hyperaccumulator and a ...

When scientist Alan Baker made a cut in the side of an exotic plant in the Philippines jungle, the sap that bled out had a jade-green glow. The shrub was a newly discovered species, soon to be known ...