Celebrating Plants and People
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How Salmon Feed The Forest (video)
The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest temperate rainforest in the world. This huge and pristine wilderness depends on an unlikely source for its long-term survival – the salmon which spawn in its rivers and creeks.
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A List Of Potentially Dangerous Herbs Used Medicinally
The objective of this research was to create a list of potentially life-threatening herbs by rating the most serious side-effects of herb consumption reported in the literature, and to list herbs causing these rated conditions-liver toxicity, kidney toxicity, cardiotoxicity, cancer, and death
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Plants’ Underground Defenses
Studies reviewed here suggest that many commonalities as well as differences exist in defense strategies employed by roots and foliar tissues during pathogen attack. Importantly, in addition to pathogens, plant roots interact with a plethora of non-pathogenic and symbiotic microorganisms.
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Plant-Based Construction Materials: Building Our Way Out Of Climate Change
If we can convert plants into building materials, we are in a win-win situation. Plants use the energy of the sun to convert atmospheric CO2 and water into hydrocarbons – the material from which plants are made.
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The Case For Mangroves
The Nature Conservancy and Wetlands International together with the University of Cambridge set out to map the current state of knowledge about the role of mangroves in coastal defence and put the different findings and views in perspective.
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Fruit Chemicals Can Reduce After Effects Of Heart Attacks & Strokes
Scientists have identified chemicals found in some everyday fruit that could protect vital organs from long-term damage following a heart attack or stroke, according to new research carried out in mice. The researchers now hope the chemicals will provide a starting point for developing new injectable drugs that could be used to prevent some of the long-term damage caused by heart attack and stroke.
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Can Seaweed Reduce West’s Meat Consumption?
We are now seeing that this method [of meat as a source of protein] is no longer sustainable towards the ecological system. The population is growing and so is the demand for proteins, but the Earth remains the same size; so we need to look at other sources
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Ethnobiology and ethnomedicine are exciting and revolutionary multidisciplinary fields at the center of many current debates on culturally appropriate management of the biodiversity and the human and animal health. The Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine is a very timely initiative to foster a common platform devoted to scientists, practitioners, environmentalists, and policy makers for investigating cultural perceptions and cognition of the natural world and of disease and illness, as well as their meaning for comprehensive environmental and public health policies.”
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Botanic Gardens Education Network (BGEN)
The Botanic Gardens Education Network (BGEN) promotes and advances the delivery of education in member organisations. We are a specialist support and training network for professionals working in education related to plants and the natural world
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Curing Plant Blindness By Not Focusing On Plants
We discuss how perceptual and physiological constraints on visual processing may suggest useful strategies for characterizing and overcoming zoocentrism.