Posted: September 29, 2022
White spruce trees are beautiful coniferous trees that look kind of like Christmas trees. They can grow up to 100 feet tall, and they grow across North America. They are cone bearing seed plants. One place they have not been known to grow is on the Arctic tundra in Alaska. When shadows in northwest Alaska
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Posted: September 14, 2022
Talented guitar builders create guitars made from different kinds of wood. The more unique looking the wood design, the more intriguing it can be to guitarists and collectors. Some of the most beautiful guitars are built from a mahogany tree felled in 1965 in the Chiquibul jungle in what is now Belize. For many years,
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Category: Blog
Tags: Belize, Chiquibul jungle, collectors, guitars, luthiers, mahogany, overharvested, Smithsonian, The Tree
Posted: August 30, 2022
My back yard is home to a rose bush that flowers beautifully in early spring. I love this rose bush because the roses cover it so profusely. They are some of the first blossoms to burst with color each year. There is one problem with the bush, however. Some of its branches arch out over
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Category: Blog
Tags: arch, birds, dormant, lawnmowing, mammals, Mary Jo DeLonardo, prune, rose bush, Treehugger Newsletter, trim
Posted: August 17, 2022
In the Netherlands, also known as Holland, a landscape architect has dreamed up a project that brings trees to people. Bruno Doedens and the late Joop Mulder, who was his longtime collaborator, thought up the project. They wanted to reduce pollution and waste and to improve biodiversity, which refers to the variety of life in
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Category: Blog
Tags: Anne Pinto-, Arcadia, biodiversity, Bosk, containers, Forest, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, pollution, Rodrigues, The Guardian Weekly, triennial art festival, Volunteers, waste
Posted: August 3, 2022
Sometimes I run across articles about native people in different countries who have inherited a passion for saving their rainforests. It’s such a basic desire that it’s in their blood. When officials in their countries do not take their abilities seriously, the people feel undervalued. And the rainforests suffer. In an article by Ed Ram
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Category: Blog
Tags: charcoal, Chibuga village, Congo, deforestation, gorillas, Objectif Brousse, Rainforests
Posted: July 19, 2022
If you see a healthy tree, it means healthy soil is helping it to grow and stay well. Healthy soil is made up of lots of microorganisms, a big, long word. It describes one-celled organisms called microbes too small for us to see. You have to look through a microscope to see them. It’s hard
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Tags: backyard garden, fruit, healthy soil, microbes, microorganisms, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, soil microbiome, topsoil, vegetables
Posted: June 30, 2022
Back in 1972, the grandfather of Jonathan Barichivich discovered a Patagonian cypress that might be the oldest tree in the world. He found it in the Andes Mountains of South America in the Alerce Costero National Park in Chile. Today, Barichivich of Chile is an environmental scientist working at the Climate and Environmental Sciences Laboratory
Posted: June 14, 2022
When I was selling my books at a local store recently, a man stopped at my book table. He began telling me about the many juniper and cedar trees that grow near his house. They were looking parched, hungry for water. In the area where we live in northwest New Mexico, we haven’t had any
Posted: May 28, 2022
Scientists who study plants have discovered something interesting. Plants have emotions. That might seem crazy. How could plants have emotions? They’re just – plants! Cleve Backster, who was a well-known lie-detector examiner, had an experience in 1966 that made him start studying plants and measuring their reaction to things that happened to them. Once when
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Category: Blog
Tags: beautiful, Cleve Backster, dracaena, emotions, experiments, fire, galvanometer, grape vines, grief, leaf, lie-detector, scientists, sob
Posted: May 12, 2022
A clump of yucca in my yard is blooming more than I have ever seen it bloom before. I counted 14 different blossom towers on it, at least twice as many as I’ve seen it produce in the past. I don’t know why it has chosen this year to bloom in such an incredibly beautiful
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