When hair is bleached, using chemicals like hydrogen peroxide, it breaks down the melanin. This causes the hair colour to ...

The Archives at Kew Gardens are home to the official records of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. These contain information ...

‘COP’ means ‘Conference of the Parties’, the regular meeting of Parties to a particular UN Convention. In this case, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), or Biodiversity Convention ...

This Black History Month I was invited to write a guest blogpost about my research on William Thomas March (pictured below).

Join Botanical Horticulturalist Joe Richomme to learn about the spooky origins of this autumn tradition, along with discovering where the modern pumpkin comes from, and learn some of the secrets on ...

Since 2019, more than one million illegally harvested succulent plants have been seized by law enforcement authorities in ...

Kew's Director of Science, Professor Kathy Willis, describes the BBC Radio 4 series Plants: From Roots to Riches. The series provides a unique examination of the major breakthroughs in botanical ...

Islands have often evolved floras rich in unique species because of their isolation. In the Pacific islands the high rate of endemism coupled with a serious level of habitat loss means that plant ...

Kew’s UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) team recently returned from a successful launch of the Tropical Important Plant Areas project in the British Virgin Islands. Rosemary Newton reflects on the ...

Gwilym Lewis, Research Leader in Kew’s Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology department, explains how and why some plants are reclassified, and reveals the complications of renaming such an iconic ...

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I first became really interested in plants around four years ago when I started working as a forager, picking wild food to supply to restaurants. My work introduced me to the incredible diversity of ...