Celebrating Plants and People
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Need a water filter? Peel a tree branch
Researchers demonstrate that a small piece of sapwood can filter out more than 99 percent of the bacteria E. coli from water.
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Pine Forest Scent Slows Climate Change?!?
They've long understood that the smell of pine, made up of volatile organic compounds, reacts with oxygen in the forest canopy to form these aerosols.
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Tree cover loss hits ethnic people hard
Traditional forest communities once eked out a living by depending on forest wealth. Following deforestation, their income has taken a serious hit.
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Traditional palm knowledge at risk of becoming lost forever
Indigenous knowledge on palms can bring potential advancement to medicine, food security and agricultural practices. However, indigenous knowledge holders should be fairly compensated when their knowledge is accessed and when commercial research takes place in their communities.
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New online tool tracks tree loss in ‘near real time’
From now on, the bad guys cannot hide and the good guys will be recognized for their stewardship.
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Duckweed For Diesel?
Understanding which genes produce which traits will allow researchers to create new varieties of duckweed with enhanced biofuel traits, such as increased reduction of cellulose or increased starch or even higher lipid production.
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Researchers discover a new plant species that is its own biodiversity hotspot
It seems like there are 11 caterpillar species that only eat this plant species
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Climate and capture mechanism in Nepenthes pitcher plants
This is the first study to demonstrate that the prey capture mechanism in a carnivorous plant is constrained by climate.
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As part of a groundbreaking study, researchers built a greenhouse "time machine"
To Decode the Mystery of Corn, Smithsonian Scientists Recreate Earth as it Was 10,000 Years Ago
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The cost of attracting pollinators is … attracting everyone else
Showy flowers might attract animals that steal the rewards offered to pollinators