Celebrating Plants and People
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Plants’ Mutual Defense Agreement
Plants use underground fungal networks to warn their neighbours of aphid attack
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Planting Trees To Stop Terrorism
Terrorists recruit people with money, they make them feel important and when you have nothing you are easily brainwashed. The Green Wall is about giving people alternatives.
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Newly Discovered Plant Might Help Save The Amazon Forest
The two men saw a plant they did not recognize. Its plump, green seed pods resembled those of a family of plants known in Peru as sacha inchi, which produce oil rich in omega-3 fatty acids. But (they) had stumbled on a species unknown to science. Now, they hope to transform it into a ‘conservation crop‘ that can be raised commercially in the shade beneath the Amazon‘s forest canopy, without cutting down any trees.
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Are Ants Manipulating Nectar For Their Own Purposes?
By transmitting sugar-eating yeasts to the nectar on which they feed, ants may be indirectly altering the nectar-chemistry and thus affecting subsequent pollinator visitations.
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Scientists Turn To Plants For Novel Morphing Materials
New method for producing composite materials from a variety of materials that adopt a pre-programmed shape autonomously.
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Chimpanzee Botanists
Chimpanzees know that trees of certain species produce fruit simultaneously and use this botanical knowledge during their daily search for fruit.
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Plants Offer Designers Model To Trap Bedbugs
A material designed to mimic the hooked hairs found on leaves could help trap and control bedbugs.
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How A Small Brown Snake Is Changing The Forest
The invasive brown tree snake has wiped out virtually all birds on the tiny Pacific island. A research team will examine how the loss of fruit-eating birds affects the distribution of 16 tree species in Guam's forests. There's a concern that Guam's forests may become filled with open areas and start to look more like Swiss cheese than a closed canopy forest.
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Overhunting Seed Dispersers Is Decimating Forests
Hunting and poaching has decimated many mammal and bird populations across the tropics, and according to two new studies the loss of these important seed-disperser are imperiling the very nature of rainforests.
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Greenery Deters Crime
Notably, vegetation is significantly and negatively correlated with all of the crime variables, with the exception of thefts. As vegetation increases, aggravated assaults, robberies, and burglaries decrease.