Column: Slow the spread of fire? ‘We have to get rid of the palm trees’
Structures, rather than vegetation, served as the primary fuel for spreading flames, but fire-resistant landscaping helps. It ...
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Researchers Find Hidden Link Between Plants’ Growth and Immunity
Biologists have uncovered a surprising connection between the way plants grow and how they defend themselves against ...
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Handcrafted woodwork helps save an Amazonian reserve, one tree at a time
A community in the Brazilian Amazon is transforming fallen trunks and dead trees into everyday items and art pieces.
Radiocarbon dating of artifacts and bones shows North American Indigenous population changes over 2,000 years
A small team of archaeologists and anthropologists from the University of Wyoming, Michigan State University, and the Desert ...
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'Dead Plant Society' project to explore how climate has changed over decades
The Dead Plant Society project will lead a search through the 250,000-strong collection in Leeds to compare modern plants and flowers to those collected in the past. Experts hope they will be able to ...
Fossils show leaf-eating insects tracked gum trees for millions of years
How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...
To Seal or Not to Seal: Understanding Tree Trimming Wounds
Trees are resilient organisms but even they need a little help sometimes When we prune or trim trees we inevitably create wounds that can leave them vulnerable to disease pests and decay This raises t ...