Friday, 23 October 2026
International edition · English
Ancient forests, alpine flowers and extraordinary plants: the plant kingdom explained.
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Under your feet, in any forest, there are kilometres of fungal threads joined to tree roots. Thanks to them trees get water and nutrients, and some studies have detected exchanges between neighbouring trees.
Some forests look like film sets: trunks a hundred metres tall, bamboo corridors, carpets of blue flowers or pines that grow bent without anyone quite knowing why. Ten places to see at least once.
Adopted in 2024 after a fiercely contested process, the Nature Restoration Regulation requires EU countries to bring degraded ecosystems back. What it says, what it does not say and when its effects will be seen.
Vulnerable, endangered, critically endangered... Behind each label are very specific scientific criteria. We explain how the world's most widely used tool for measuring extinction risk works.
Its velvety look is not decorative: it is armour against the radiation, cold and dryness of the high mountains. The natural and cultural history of the most famous flower in the Alps.
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