Tucked into a corner of DeVries Hall on Calvin's campus is an oddly shaped room containing a trove of biological treasures. Called simply the Herbarium, the windowless space, whose roots go back to ...

Duke Herbarium director Kathleen Pryer holds a specimen called the Gaga monstraparva. The Duke Herbarium contains over 800,000 specimens that can aid biodiversity research. Duke University is closing ...

AMES, Iowa – The offices on the perimeter of the third floor of Bessey Hall on the Iowa State University campus have windows. A complex of four adjacent interior rooms across the hallway from those ...

This post was updated June 5 at 2:12 p.m. The UCLA Herbarium is making its collection more accessible through its newly renovated space and digital initiatives. Founded in 1930, the herbarium features ...

DENVER — When Alissa Iverson isn't scouring wild Colorado for new specimens, she's surrounded by thousands of dead, well preserved bugs, plants, and fungi. "I would say that an herbarium, which is ...

In 1770, after Captain Cook's Endeavor struck the Great Barrier Reef and was held up for repairs, botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander collected hundreds of plants. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

The seaweed, or marine algae, that you find in the ocean and washed up on the shore is a valuable source of information and innovation that can be important for art, science and sustainable climate ...