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David Nash sculptures arrive in the Gallery

By: Joanne Seaton - 01 Jun 2012

Read about the Gallery Team's exciting preparations for the David Nash exhibition.


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Restoring habitats in the Falkland Islands, one seed at a time

By: Alicky Davey and Tom Heller - 22 Feb 2013

Alicky Davey from Falklands Conservation and Tom Heller from Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank explain how collecting wild plant seed can help restore eroded habitats and pastures in the Falkland Islands.


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Conserving Darwin's Letters

By: Eleanor Hasler - 17 May 2013

Discover more about the conservation work carried out on one of the most important, popular and fascinating collection in the Archives.


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On the trail of the lace-bark tree of Jamaica

By: Emily Brennan, Lori-Ann Harris - 26 May 2010

The lace-bark tree is the source of a beautiful natural lace, and was a vital part of Jamaican culture for 400 years. Inspired by lace-bark artefacts at Kew, Emily Brennan and Lori-Ann Harris search out the tree and its users in the Jamaican countryside.


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About 'Business Shaped By Nature'

By: Mike Saunders - 07 Jun 2010

Learn how some of Kew's world-leading plant experts have come together with thought-leaders at Biomimicry for Creative Innovation (BCI) to see if we can help organisations make nature work harder for them.


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Botanical challenge: Identifying specimens in Kew's Herbarium

By: Gemma Bramley - 18 Jan 2011

Find out how Kew botanists, specialising in the flora of southeast Asia, get together every Friday afternoon for the 'family sort' of specimens newly arrived to the Herbarium.


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The changing and developing landscape

By: Philippa Edwards - 31 May 2011

Project Manager Philippa Edwards, provides an update on how the plants are looking in the Australia Landscape.


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The mysterious hanging diagrams of Museum No. 2

By: Caroline Cornish - 09 Aug 2011

One of Kew's PhD students investigates the beautiful posters that once hung in Kew's museums.


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Free events in Kew's Archives this January

By: Kiri Ross Jones - 06 Jan 2012

Join Kew's archivists to hear botanists’ and plant hunters’ stories about their travels and cultural encounters and go behind-the-scenes in the Archives.


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The winter flowering Cyclamen coum

By: Richard Wilford - 09 Jan 2012

It is said that you can have a cyclamen in flower every month of the year and January belongs to the diminutive Cyclamen coum.


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Mapping live data and tweets from the field

By: Justin Moat and Steve Bachman - 14 Feb 2012

Mapping live data and tweets from the field - experiments with the latest technology 'mashups' in Sumatra.

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Study finds sixty percent of UK species in decline

22 May 2013
Kew has contributed to a groundbreaking report on the state of wildlife in the UK in time for International Day of Biological Diversity. It reveals that 60% of species studied have declined over recent decades.


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What are hard seeds for?

14 May 2013
A new hypothesis has been proposed on why some seeds are hard.


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