Category: Plants & People
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Human Creation Story Should Really Be about Evolution of Grasses
The arrival of a new variety of plants, particularly grasses, may have altered the environment in ways that could have helped push our ancestors to acquire traits that would come to define modern humans
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Nature Trails Reduce Youth Obesity
More non-motorized nature trails available for use by youth in a particular county lead to an increase in the physical activity rates as well as lower youth obesity rates
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Your Trendy Rayon Clothes Are Made Of Stolen Rainforest
“We would love to see a world where we don’t destroy any forests for fabric.”
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Saving Pollinators That Live In Cities (Like The Rest Of Us)
Although urban areas are expanding, outside urban nature reserves they offer little formal protection for biodiversity. Urban habitats have the potential to provide excellent conditions for pollinators. For example, half of Germany’s entire bee fauna have been found in Berlin, 35% of British hoverfly species were sampled in a single Leicester garden and honey bees produce more honey in urban Birmingham than in the surrounding countryside
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Human Relationship With Peaches Goes Back 8000 years
This paper presents the first detailed quantitative and qualitative examination of tree fruit domestication in China by providing a comparative analysis of archaeological peach stones from five sites in the lower Yangzi valley and examines when, where, and under what circumstances peach began its close relationship with people.
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Global War On Trees: Report From The Front
“The war on trees is alive and well unfortunately, but in some countries we are winning battles against the war on trees … I think it is the beginning of the end. There are countries where forests are actually regrowing, including Europe, the US, India, China and Vietnam, and even some in Africa.”
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Office Plants Proven To Improve Office Productivity And More
“The ‘lean’ philosophy has been influential across a wide range of organisational domains. Our research questions this widespread conviction that less is more. Sometimes less is just less”.
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The Dark Side of Almond Use
Thousands of endangered king salmon in northern California’s Klamath River are threatened by low water levels because water is being diverted to almond farms.
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The Science of Turning Plants Into Booze
Human beings pretty much always find a way when it comes to getting hammered.
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Ancient Australian Cave Art Reveals New African Baobab Species
If the boabs arrived 70,000 years ago, and the rock art is 70,000 years old, it’s a hell of a coincidence.