Botanist Corneille Ewango talks about his work at the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the Congo Basin -- and his heroic work protecting it from poachers, miners and raging civil wars.

Nearly 800 million people worldwide depend on cassava for survival -- but this critical food source is under attack by entirely preventable viruses, says computational biologist and TED Senior Fellow Laura Boykin. She takes us to the...

Reading University is a leading center for botanical research, housing rare plant specimens from around the world. With their extensive collection of living plants and dried samples, they have created a comprehensive online botanical...