Category: Plants & People
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What’s In Your Pot? African Cuisine Included Leafy Greens And Yams Over 3,500 Years Ago
“The visible and invisible remains of food preparation in the archaeological sediment and the pottery give us a much more complete picture of past eating habits. This new evidence suggests a significant time depth in West African cuisine.” (Click on title for full story)
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Taste Differs: Broccoli Is Yucky To Some Because Their Saliva Reacts With It.
Children might dislike Brassica vegetables, such as cauliflower and broccoli, because of volatile sulfur compounds produced in their saliva. (Click on title for full story)
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New Threat To Ocean Plants: Human Noise
This is the first time that noise’s impact on plant structure has been studied, to the best of the researchers’ knowledge. (Click on title for full story.)
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My Guitar Gently Weeps For The Tree Species Its Construction Drives To Extinction
Musicians are often concerned about environmental problems, but entangled in them through the materials used in their instruments. The guitar industry, which uses rare woods from old-growth trees, has been a canary in the coal mine—struggling with scandals over illegal logging, resource scarcity and new environmental regulations related to trade in endangered species of trees. (Click on title for fullstory.)
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Our Future Is Being Built On Lithium Batteries At The Expense Of Biodiversity And Clean Water
Fewer than 40 years after humans discovered Tiehm’s buckwheat, a Nevada plant with yellow flowers, they may drive it to extinction in pursuit of electric vehicles, a technology widely hailed as being environmentally friendly. (Click on title for full story)
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Is Our Hunger For Houseplants Wiping Out Wild Species Worldwide?
Plant poaching is not new, nor is it unique to the area; but, pandemic-inspired houseplant purchases have exacerbated the issue worldwide. (Click on title for full story)
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Botanists More Likely To Study Sexy Plants At Expense Of Plain Ones
Using a statistical model, they found that the physical appearance of a plant – its colour, the size of its flowers and the height of its stems – was the most important factor in explaining research interest amongst botanists, trumping ecological importance, rarity and abundance. (Click on title for full story)
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The Trees That Will Let Notre Dame Cathedral Rise Again
According to the army general in charge of the reconstruction of Notre Dame, these trees were planted under King Louis XIV’s reign in order to provide wood to build the masts for ships belonging to the French navy. (Click on title for full story)
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How Plastic Threatens Coastal Mangrove Defenses
We’ve seen roots stuck inside plastic bags. Trying to find a way out, they just grow in circles. Eventually trees that cannot outgrow the plastic die.’ (Click on title for full story.)
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American Bison Responsible for Producing Crops To Feed Indigenous Populations
“We don’t think of the plants they were eating as prairie plants,” she said. “However, this research suggests that they actually are prairie plants — but they only occur on prairies if there are bison. (Click on title for full story.)