An Introduction to Plants

The Webster’s Dictionary definition of a plant is deceptively simple for organisms that play such a fundamental role in ecosystems and have such complex interactions with each other, their environment, and other organisms: Plant n. 1, a living organism, lacking voluntary motion, usually rooted in and growing from the soil. Plants compete with each other […]

An Introduction to Water

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes – one for peace and one for science. -John F. Kennedy Water (H2O) is the most common substance on Earth, covering about 75% of the surface and existing in a solar-driven flux between the gas, liquid and solid phases. Of […]