Category: Plants & People
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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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Free E-Book Examines What Drives Deforestation
The Little Book of Big Deforestation Drivers outlines the global context to the drivers of deforestation, provides a detailed overview of the most critical forest risk commodity supply chains, and presents a clear and realistic framework of 24 regulatory, market and supply chain catalysts that can act to reduce deforestation caused by these commodities
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Hydrofracking, A Plant From India, And Why Ice Cream Is Threatened
A sudden demand for an obscure substance with an odd name – guar gum – has companies whose products range from vanilla ice cream to black gold checking Indian weather reports and their own bottom lines
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Our Daily Bread: When Our Ancestors Left The Trees And Discovered Grains
Most apes eat leaves and fruits from trees and shrubs. New studies show that human ancestors expanded their menu 3.5 million years ago, adding tropical grasses and sedges to an ape-like diet and setting the stage for our modern diet of grains, grasses, and meat and dairy from grazing animals
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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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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.
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Loss Of Urban Forest Killing Us?
In an analysis of 18 years of data from 1,296 counties in 15 states, researchers found that Americans living in areas infested by the emerald ash borer, a beetle that kills ash trees, suffered from an additional 15,000 deaths from cardiovascular disease and 6,000 more deaths from lower respiratory disease when compared to uninfected areas.
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Reforestation With Non-Native Trees: More Harm Than Help?
The animals have all moved far away – they can’t hide in the pine trees, We used to look for herbal medicines in the forest, but now we can’t. There is something that was lost along with those trees. We have lost a big thing.”
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Cacti Collect Fog Irrigation With Their Spines
The integration of the multiple functions within the spines and the trichomes, including water deposition, collection, transportation and absorption in the cactus, facilitated an efficient fog collection system.