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The Green World
How plants feed the planet, how flowers and seeds spread life, and the hidden kingdom of fungi underneath it all.
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Plants & Fungi
Photosynthesis: How Plants Eat Light
Every leaf is a solar panel that turns sunlight, water and air into sugar and oxygen. It is the chemical reaction that feeds almost everything alive.
3 min read 4-question quiz
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Plants & Fungi
Trees and Forests
The largest and oldest living things on Earth are trees, and the forests they form hold most of the planet's land species and a vast store of carbon.
4 min read 4-question quiz
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Plants & Fungi
Flowers and Pollination
Flowers are advertisements aimed at insects, birds and bats. The deal, nectar for pollen delivery, is 130 million years old and feeds most of the world.
4 min read 4-question quiz
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Plants & Fungi
Seeds
A seed is a plant packed for travel: an embryo, a lunchbox and a coat, able to wait for years and cross oceans. Most of what people eat is seeds.
4 min read 4-question quiz
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Plants & Fungi
Fungi
Neither plant nor animal, fungi are a kingdom of their own: the planet's recyclers, the partners of nearly every plant, and the source of bread, beer and penicillin.
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Plants & Fungi
Carnivorous Plants
In soils too poor to live on, some plants turned the tables and began eating animals. Snap traps, pitfalls, flypaper and suction pumps: the botany of hunting.
4 min read 4-question quiz
