"Diwali is the Festival of Lights, a five-day period celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and some Buddhists. It is derived ...

In the earliest days of the Millennium Seed Bank, I was able to negotiate Access and Benefit-Sharing agreements in the USA ...

The results are published in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, the world’s most trusted source of information on ...

A favourite item from the Balls collection which features in the exhibition is his photo album of an expedition to Persia in ...

Join Kew curator-mycologists Issy Miles-Bunch and Rosie Woods in the Fungarium as they introduce you to some of their ...

From hidden treasures to hands-on discoveries, Lucy Horton shares what she learned during her year as an Undergraduate Science Intern at Kew, shining a light on the fascinating world of the ...

Learn how we are using machine learning to tell us if our orchid seeds in the MSB are still alive, and how this will benefit us in the future. You usually wouldn’t think of artificial intelligence (AI ...

One of the most iconic trees in Britain, oak trees are a familiar sight in our forests and parks. But how much do you know about these ancient sentinels? How many species of oak tree are there? What ...

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 ...

Forests are finely tuned to the rhythms of climate. We see these rhythms every year, as leaves fall in autumn and newly formed buds open in spring. Flowers bloom, and seeds are set on a seasonal ...

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? Easy access to DNA is one of the 21st century ...

Since Kew Gardens was first established nearly two hundred years ago, trees have been a key part of the landscape. Around 11,000 of them call the Gardens home, ranging from young saplings to Kew’s Old ...