An e-mail from Clinton wants to know about transpiration. Transpiration is simply a release of water vapor by plants and it's a big part of the overall water cycle. The water cycle is mother nature's ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A new textbook by a Mississippi State University professor of biological sciences highlights the impending encroachment of human activities on wetlands and how aquatic plant life ...

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