{"id":241209,"date":"2026-07-20T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T05:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-studying-earths-flowering-plants-issue-a-stark-warning-to-humanity"},"modified":"2026-07-20T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T05:04:13","slug":"scientists-studying-earths-flowering-plants-issue-a-stark-warning-to-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-studying-earths-flowering-plants-issue-a-stark-warning-to-humanity","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Studying Earth\u2019s Flowering Plants Issue a Stark Warning to Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-studying-earths-flowering-plants-issue-a-stark-warning-to-humanity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/these-are-the-world-s-favorite-smells-no-matter-where-you-re-from-scientists-say\">beloved vanilla orchid<\/a>, whose pods flavor many of our favorite desserts, to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/kews-most-famous-plant-continues-to-turn-heads-and-noses-135-years-on\">nose-twisting corpse flower<\/a>, whose gigantic flower draws crowds with every fetid bloom, even the world\u2019s most treasured flowering plants are in grave danger.<\/p>\n<p>And scientists are only just coming to terms with just how much we stand to lose.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent paper published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.adz0773\">Science<\/a>,<\/em> an international team of biologists warns that we risk losing more than a fifth of the evolutionary history of flowering plants, as a result of ever-increasing human pressures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the beloved vanilla orchid, whose pods flavor many of our favorite desserts, to the nose-twisting corpse flower, whose gigantic flower draws crowds with every fetid bloom, even the world\u2019s most treasured flowering plants are in grave danger. And scientists are only just coming to terms with just how much we stand to lose. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}