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Plants may be evolving the wrong traits for a warming world

Source: FlexChar · Published Sep 4, 2026, 5:02 AM

In Science, FlexChar puts this story at the center of the day: Morning glories may be getting caught in an evolutionary tug-of-war between surviving climate change and attracting increasingly scarce pollinators. Over just nine years, researchers found that the plants’ rate of adaptation plunged by 96%, even though they still had plenty of ge FlexChar is surfacing it because it is driving searches and conversation right now.

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