Additions to the Flora of Ceylon’ is a landmark in Sri Lanka’s botanical history which reveals nearly 200 plant species, ...

The history of the gardenia in this country is intertwined with the botanical investigations of Alexander Garden.

When the government of Sri Lanka published the  National Red List of threatened plants in 2020, my eyebrows shot up. We’ve ...

Deep-sea operations proposed by a Vancouver-based mining company could cause harm to a wide variety of species in the Pacific Ocean, including whales, dolphins and sound-producing fish, two new ...

According to the classification of living things proposed by Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus in the 18th century, “class” ranks four steps up from “species.” ...

Kalm’s travel was funded by the SKA and promoted by his supporter, Carolus Linné (Carl Linnaeus); he had passports to enter the Dutch and French territories in North America and was accompanied ...

Swedish botanist Carl (or Carolus) Linnaeus is, by some measures, the most influential person ever to have lived. He is famous for devising new systems for naming and grouping all living organisms ...

The categories that inform conceptualisations and operationalisations of race and racism are a European construct, formalised by scientists like Carolus Linnaeus and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in the ...

The lilac swiftly captivated European nobility and clergy alike, thriving in royal gardens and monastery grounds across many countries within a few decades. Its scientific naming by the renowned ...

After Anders Celsius died in 1744 due to tuberculosis, a common and often fatal disease at that time, the renowned taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus proposed a switch, resversing the scale and making it ...