General · 16 June 2026
AI Helps Botanists Track Plants Facing Extinction
People risk losing essential plants and the benefits they provide if species vanish before being identified. Botanists at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew say artificial intelligence and digitised collections are speeding up identification of species and tracking environmental changes. A report highlights AI use in analysing millions of specimens and revealing climate-linked shifts in flowering times of 2.5 days per decade.
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