ScienceWildflowers That Eat Lead: The Pansies Cleaning Up Old British MinesA rare class of UK wildflowers known as metallophytes is quietly pulling lead, zinc and cadmium out of old mining soils — and saving councils millions in remediation costs.
SciencePlant Last Seen in 1967 Rediscovered in Australian Outback by Chance PhotoBird bander Aaron Bean uploaded a shrub photo to iNaturalist — and a botanist instantly recognized Ptilotus senarius, missing for nearly six decades.
