Category: Plants & People
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Plants Save Our Lives Just By Being Around Us
The scientists found that being among plants produced “lower concentrations of cortisol, lower pulse rate, and lower blood pressure,” among other things.
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Plant Blindness: What research says
If most people, especially in urban areas don‘t pay much attention to plants, then they are less likely to appreciate the role of plants in life on earth, and to support plant conservation and research.
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Charcoal Production Part Of Cycle Of Poverty And Eco-Disaster
We know the charcoal is bad. It affects bio-diversity and wild life. But without crops and livestock we have no alternatives. The insecurities of the country are too great for us to focus on alternatives. Alternatives take time and money, we have neither of these.
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Desperate Measures To Save Wetlands
The most effective tool for cleaning up the oil working its way into southern Louisiana wetlands may, in the end, be the equivalent of a box of kitchen matches.
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What If We Paid For The Resources We Really Use?
The economic case for global action to stop the destruction of the natural world is even more powerful than the argument for tackling climate change, a major report for the United Nations will declare this summer.
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Using Carnivorous Plants To Stop Malaria
The idea is to create a bush where, instead of having an ideal breeding ground, the plants will kill the mosquitoes.
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Chili To The Defense
After conducting tests, the military has decided to use the thumb-sized 'bhut jolokia,' or 'ghost chili,' to make tear gas-like hand grenades to immobilize suspects, defense officials said.
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Health Clinic Accepts Seedlings As Payment
The Asri Clinic doesn't take credit cards. Instead, the clinic accepts payments that improve the local ecosystem, be it seedlings for replanting, eggshells for composting, even manure.
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Native Tree To Save African Farmers
Faidherbia is one of several trees that can capture nitrogen from the air through its roots and incorporate it into its leaves. But what makes it unique is that it grows in the dry season and drops its leaves come the rainy season, when crops start to grow.
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Making Hard Choices
No one's certain how the meadows formed, and the encroachment is a natural succession… But the Forest Service believes the meadows have both scenic and botanic value, and the only way to keep them open is to beat back the advancing trees.