Though deforestation rates in parts of Africa may be rising, farmers in many African countries are growing trees – lots of them. Yale Environment 360, an online magazine focusing on global environmental issues, published an article June 13, 2023 written by Fred Pearce that tells how African farmers are improving the global climate by growing
Nearly a quarter of a million acres of trees cover most of the Menominee Indian Reservation in northern Wisconsin. Because of wise lumber harvesting practices, the forest contains more trees and healthier trees than it did a century and a half ago. That’s quite an accomplishment, because 93 percent of the 235,000-acre Menominee reservation is
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Supermoon Tonight and for the next couple of nights, you have a chance to see a supermoon. That is what the full moon is called when it is at its closest point to the Earth. The picture in this blog is not a supermoon. I took it a couple of weeks ago because I thought
This is the time of year when the two juniper trees in my front yard spin off lots of baby juniper trees. I love juniper trees, but two of them are the limit for my front yard, which also contains banana yuccas, a spruce tree and quite a few flowers. When I find the tiny
Six years ago, when I moved to the house where I now live, I found several plants I couldn’t identify in flower beds on one side of my cement driveway. One of them had small petals tinged red on the inside and yellow on the outer edges. The petals grew around a center cone that
When I bought my house six years ago, among the plants I inherited with it was an interesting looking green one that had leaves shaped like an origami creation. They form many intricate designs that fold into each other. The plant is beautiful and looks even better now than it did six years ago. It
Tarun Nayar is a trained biologist. He is also a musician. He likes to make music with the help of bioelectric pulses he has recorded from living plants and fungi. He also is interested in integrating the sounds of wild places such as old-growth forests. He wants people to be fascinated by and aware of
Some researchers in Israel have been studying plants and the sounds they make. Lilach Hadany, an evolutionary biologist and theoretician at Tel Aviv University is the senior author of the study. The researchers published their work in the journal, Cell. The study is called “Sounds Emitted by Plants Under Stress Are Airborne and Informative.” Though
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