As rising seas salinise the soils of the Venice lagoon, scientists and chefs are turning to long-forgotten wild herbs ...

Recent observations of the scrubby banks in the Venice hinterland echo the faint wail of farmers' three wheeled trucks, ...

Emirates Nature-WWF, as part of a multi stakeholder project looking at nature-based solutions (NbS) in the UAE, is leading an exploration of salt-loving halophytes with strong implications for local ...

Seven years ago, Flight International reported on a seemingly far-fetched concept: the possibility of powering commercial aircraft with biofuel derived from saltwater plants, or halophytes, grown in ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 68, No. 12, Special Issue: The Changing Climate of Plant Membrane Biology (2017), pp. 3129-3143 (15 pages) Salt stress impacts multiple aspects of plant metabolism ...

KARACHI: Experts at the second day of an international conference in progress at Karachi University (KU) shared how they were successfully using halophytes in diverse regions to improve soil and land ...

Seawater-irrigated halophytes are a non-traditional crop that may serve to offset anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions through long-term carbon storage. To assess the feasibility of storing carbon ...

On a sun-scorched wasteland near India's southern tip, an unlikely garden filled with spiky shrubs and spindly greens is growing, seemingly against all odds. The plants are living on saltwater, coping ...

Food production needs to increase by 70 per cent in the next 30 years to feed a world population expected to reach 9 billion people, according to a recent study. However, traditional agriculture is ...