We’re a small group of 22. We’re all different ages and have different ideas. We’ve had different careers and educations. We ...

Join Iain Parkinson, Wakehurst’s Head of Landscape & Horticulture as he reflects on the beauty and importance of meadows.

Ash dieback is a disease caused by a fungus called Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, an invasive species which has spread across Europe in the past 30 years. The fungus grows into the trees’ vascular systems ...

New portal makes millions of specimens freely accessible to the world Kew’s vast botanical and mycological archive - plant and fungal specimens collected over centuries - is now just a click away, ...

Wakehurst in Sussex has announced ‘The Buzz About Trees’, an innovative new study that harnesses cutting-edge bioacoustics technology to monitor bee abundance. With wild bee populations in decline, ...

On two remote islands in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), conservationists, scientists, and local partners are working together to unearth a story that begins in the soil. It is a story of resilience ...

Kew's scientists and international partners share their 10 favourite species named as new to science in the past 12 months. It's been another busy year here at Kew, with our scientists and their ...

What is digital sequence information (DSI)? As the biodiversity COP16 unfolds in Colombia, a hot discussion is taking place on the fair use of ‘digital sequence information’ – but what is it really?

Planting for the future: How Kew is protecting its plants to 2090 Trees and woody shrubs at risk from climate change at Kew revealed in our new Landscape Succession Plan.

The makings of a meadow Today, a meadow is often used to describe any largely unmanaged natural area with a proliferation of grasses and flowers. More traditionally though, it refers to a field that ...

Nestled within the vaults of botanical gardens and museums around the world lie millions of herbarium specimens: an army of dried plants collected over hundreds of years and lying witness to serious ...