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This year, environmentally friendly designers are launching a series of awesome-looking alternatives on the market. One of the most ingenious options is the recyclable Christmas tree made of corrugated cardboard.
The product is lightweight, easy to fold and pack and definitely something you don't see in every ... |
20 December 2011
10:29 GMT |
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The National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony has become a symbol for the American citizens during this time of the year. For almost nine decades, the event has increased its popularity and gained more and more followers.
President Barack Obama himself was expected to lighten the 19-foot-tall balsam fir. This is th... |
1 December 2011
09:59 GMT |
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People who enjoy eating walnuts on a daily basis should be aware that their diet is threatened by climate change. Walnut trees (Juglans) are a highly demanding species of trees that require specific conditions. Rapidly expanding deforestation correlated with extreme drought could make this tree population extremely... |
1 December 2011
07:33 GMT |
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Life is what makes our planet different from all the others. Life is all we have, and, for some reason, we try to improve it all the time. But we are not the only living things on Earth. Animals, and also plants, share this wonderful feeling of being alive. Of course, in a somewhat different manner, but an important ... |
17 August 2009
13:41 GMT |
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Synium Software, a developer of Mac OS X software, has released a new version of its flagship app, MacFamilyTree. The genealogy application lets users create family trees and display them in multiple ways. The product is shareware and costs $49.95. According to the release notes for MacFamilyTree 5.6, the new versio... |
10 July 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Synium Software has issued a new release of its genealogy app for Mac OS X, MacFamily Tree 5.5 Beta 4. The update delivers a reduced number of changes, including several fixed bugs in the Palette Configuration and tweaks to the user interface. The iPhone companion is still available at version 1.3.2, last updated in ... |
30 April 2009
05:04 GMT |
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Every year the Vatican receives a Christmas tree from some corner of the world, as part of its tradition, and this year the Holy See got a 33-meter high, 120-year old tree from the Southern forest of Austria, which will decorate the state's square until Christmas passes. Officials have announced that the wood th... |
15 December 2008
04:45 GMT |
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Swinging from one tree topic to another, Synium Software has updated MacFamilyTree, its genealogy application, to version 5.3.6, improving the generation and rendering performance of the virtual tree, but also enhancing the alignment in the virtual tree and the MobileFamilyTree sync, for the iPhone version of the app... |
12 December 2008
10:09 GMT |
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If you do not like the idea of having a tree dying in your home during the holidays, you should know that using artificial fir trees is not among the brightest ideas. Regular decorations or Christmas lights bought from store are not very good, either. Also, if you're into bestowing some of the spirit of Christma... |
9 December 2008
09:21 GMT |
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Synium Software has released version 5.3 of MacFamilyTree, an app that offers Mac users a place to document, store, and display information about their family. The update brings WebKit-based, configurable reports, a rewritten Kinship technology to the popular Mac genealogy application and bookmarks, among other... |
21 October 2008
13:41 GMT |
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Researchers from MIT discovered that trees carry a small amount of electrical power, and they founded a company which would harness it and use it as a source of power.Through their newly-founded Voltree company, the scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are trying to tap on tree energy and use it ... |
2 October 2008
03:58 GMT |
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The real woodpeckers may not be able to put on performances like Woody the Woodpecker, but they still make a special group of birds nonetheless. 1. The closest relatives of the woodpeckers are the honeyguides. Out of 204 species of woodpeckers, only the two species of wrynecks (Jynx) do not drill and drum the wood. T... |
9 May 2008
09:02 GMT |
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The height growth of the plants is a very strenuous process. While reaching to the sky, the plants waste a lot of energy as they must fight the gravitational force. That's why the tree world giant, endowed with the right "pumps", can grow to a maximum height of 130 m (430 ft). World's tallest trees are the ... |
30 April 2008
10:58 GMT |
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Located in the central California, Yosemite National Park protects giant redwoods (Sequoia) and wild forests from the High Sierra Nevada area. The park has a surface of 304,380 ha and a remarkable landscape. With the millions of years that have passed, erosion removed the layers representing a former sea bed. Slowly ... |
24 April 2008
10:20 GMT |
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The common fig (Ficus carica) is one of the oldest trees cultivated by humans and mentioned even in the Bible. It is a rather small tree, up to 10 m (33 ft) tall and ramified from its base. The crown is large and with relatively few branches. The green hairy buds contain milky and sticky latex. The leaves are large, ... |
23 April 2008
10:31 GMT |
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This is a real surprise: this cluster of spruces in the mountains in western Sweden, at an age of 8,000 years, may be not only the world's oldest living trees, but also the most aged being on the planet. The spruces were found growing high on a mountain side, that's why they were protected from logging, but... |
14 April 2008
03:06 GMT |
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The people of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have found a pretty remarkable way to lure people into buying trees and plant them in Indonesia. In fact, all the users have to do is to donate money and wait for the tree to be planted in the Sebangau National Forest in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. What's interestin... |
25 March 2008
15:31 GMT |
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You may have heard about breadfruit trees. This is the sausage tree, to complete the hot dog. When thinking about the trees of the African savanna, baobabs, acacias and eventually mopane trees come into your mind. But one of the most original trees of the African savanna is the Sausage Tree (Kigelia africana), a tree... |
25 March 2008
10:25 GMT |
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One of the wonders of the American southwest is found in northeastern Arizona: an enormous petrified forest, a real geological treasure the scientists learned about to the end of the 19th century. Petrified Forest National Park from Arizona comprises a surface of 218,533 acres (341.5 sq mi; 885 km) of petrified wood... |
20 March 2008
10:19 GMT |
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1. Gymnosperms dominated the Earth's flora during the Dinosaur Era until the emergence of the flower plants (Angiosperms) during the last period of the dinos' domination. They appeared 300 million years ago and reached the climax of their development 120 million years ago. Still, one group of gymnosperms is... |
8 February 2008
10:10 GMT |
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The largest ever land animals were the enormous plant-eater dinosaurs called sauropods, of which Apatosaurus (former Brontosaurus) is the best known. These creatures could grow up to 42 m (130 ft) in length (but the neck and tail could be longer than their body) and at least 110 tons in weight. Researchers have been... |
8 February 2008
03:30 GMT |
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Those Japanese can deliver you, like in a flowerpot, a 40 cm high oak tree, which may be older than you. Bonsai is the Japanese art of the miniature trees, but its roots are found in China, and the name bonsai comes from the Chinese "pun sai" (pun means "pot" and sai "tree"). This art originated during the 3rd centur... |
7 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) is believed to have originated in South America, in the basins of Amazon or Orinoco. In 1502, Columbus was the first European to encounter the tree during his fourth voyage, but he completely ignored the fruits resembling a melon. Two decades later, Hernan Cortes observed with amazeme... |
29 January 2008
07:03 GMT |
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1. Despite the name of banana tree, Musa paradisiaca is a 7-8 m (23-27 ft) tall and robust grass, with a tree-like aspect. It has a false trunk made of the well developed sheaths of the leaves wrapping each other (the proper stem is very short). Upper leaves are very large, over 2 m (6.6 ft) in length and 40 cm (1.3 ... |
26 January 2008
04:02 GMT |
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1. Timber is at great demand because it is accessible, ductile, processable, can be combined and has a nice look. Wood has a specific pattern, depending on the species. This is the most visible in longitudinal sections, when the inner structure can be deduced. 2. Another trait of the timber is the existence of knots,... |
16 January 2008
07:15 GMT |
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1.The first ferns appeared 350 million years ago. They form a plant group called Pteridophyta. These are the first superior plants, having a cuticle impermeable to water, roots and an inner tissue specialized for transporting water and nutrients between the water absorbing organs (roots) and food producing ones (lea... |
11 January 2008
08:29 GMT |
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Palm trees are more than the symbol of tropical beaches. Many have eatable fruits (dates and coconut are the most famous), while the wood is employed for building houses, including covering of the floors, and the leaves are employed for making of roofings, parquets, brooms and baskets. Starch is extracted from the sa... |
27 December 2007
09:54 GMT |
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Surfing through different casual game developer's pages, I came across Reflexive, which is a very well known name in this industry. This month they are preparing the release of a new game that I promise, will be pretty amazing. Now, think a bit... What's the result if you put games like Monarch: The Butterf... |
30 November 2007
09:34 GMT |
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An oak with a 37 cm trunk diameter has about 119,000 leaves while a pine with a trunk of 60-70 cm in diameter has 30-40 million needle leaves. An oak eliminates in a warm summer through its leaves about 10 tonnes of water. There is only one place in the world, at the north of the Panama Channel, where trees with a sq... |
23 November 2007
15:59 GMT |
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Even the dinosaurs enjoyed the fragrance of the magnolia blossoms, as this is one of the oldest flowering tree types in the world. But they are more than beautiful flowers: the bark of these trees contains polyphenols, that's why it was used for centuries by the Chinese and Japanese medicine. Now the magnolia ba... |
20 November 2007
02:52 GMT |
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This is the whale of the ground-dwelling arhtropods (articulated-feet invertebrates). The coconut crab, also called the robber crab (because it is believed to steal shiny objects, like a magpie), lives only on the tropical islands of Indian and Pacific Oceans (Christmas, Seychelles, Cook, Andaman, Nicobar, Carolines)... |
19 November 2007
14:11 GMT |
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Since ancient times, people associated the idea of the immortality of the soul, rooted in Plato's teachings, with evergreen plants. With a right trunk, arched branches and fusiform treetop, the cypress tree is generally recognized as the funerary tree in the Mediterranean area. In antiquity, this tree, always gr... |
14 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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There are pumpkins that could make a nice Halloween 'lamp' for an elephant. By selection, patience and a little bit of luck and the passion of the cultivators of the variety of Atlantic Giant pumpkins have obtained squashes weighing up to 760 kg (1,689-pound). But remember: these are man-selected plants, wh... |
12 November 2007
15:36 GMT |
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Sequoia (redwoods) are the largest trees in the world and at the same time amongst the most long-lived ones, having a long lifespan (of millennia). A specimen of coast redwood tree (Sequoia sempervirens) found in 2006 in a remote forest in Redwood National Park (Northern California) proved to be the world's tall... |
5 November 2007
04:59 GMT |
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1. Gibbons are the smallest living apes. They are restricted to the southeastern Asia (Indochina, and three big islands of Indonesia: Borneo, Sumatra and Java). Gibbons split from the line that evolved towards humans over 10 million years ago. Experts say that all living gibbons evolved from one species, 2 million ye... |
22 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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1. The Chameleons' closest relatives are ...the iguanas and dragon lizards (Agamidae). In fact, there are iguanas living in Americas called false chameleons, that resemble a lot the real chameleons of the Old World, and even have the ability of changing their color. The oldest known chameleon is the Mimeosaurus,... |
20 October 2007
07:53 GMT |
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By definition, a fish lives in water. Some may burrow during the dry season, breathing - through lungs, intestine membrane, labyrinths or other specialized organs - oxygen from the air, but they have an active life in the water. Mudskippers, relatives of the gobies, cope well with life on the wet mud of the mangroves... |
20 October 2007
05:44 GMT |
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1. The Orangutan is the only Asian ape, closely related to humans, chimps and gorillas, from which they split more than 8 million years ago. Today they live in the islands of Borneo and Sumatra (southeastern Asia). Till recently, they were believed to represent the same species, but DNA analysis showed there are two ... |
18 October 2007
13:06 GMT |
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Cycad palms are some of the oldest trees on Earth. Even if they resemble a palm tree, they are much more primitive, being gymnosperm related to the coniferous trees. They appeared 280 millions year ago, when reptiles were just evolving from amphibians, and dominated the Earth for a long time during the dinosaur era t... |
5 October 2007
07:12 GMT |
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There's no itch as far as the bears' habit of rubbing their back against trees is concerned. In fact, this has been found to be a scent mark, warning others to keep off from the real master of the place. Many theories tried to explain this habit. Some believed females could do it when they were at the peak ... |
6 September 2007
07:34 GMT |
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The secret of the African potency goes from yohimbe and buffalo beans in West Africa to the sex tree of Uganda. The sex tree, Citropsis articulata is a short humble bush related to the citrus trees and grows in Uganda's rain forest. Now it faces extinction as African lover boys overharvest its roots due to their... |
4 August 2007
06:31 GMT |
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This is somehow like the case of the frozen mammoths that still have meat on them. But if those mammoths are tens of thousands of years old, these trees are 8 million years, dating back from the time when Europe was a subtropical wet paradise. The trees look like ghost forests, but this rare cluster of fossilized tre... |
2 August 2007
07:07 GMT |
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If one looked for a place on Earth resembling the conditions on Mars, scientists found that Mexico's highest (dormant) volcano would fit. Now pine forests growing on slopes of the 13,780 feet (4,590 m) snow-capped Pico de Orizaba are investigated to see if trees could grow on a warmed Mars, as part of a vision ... |
17 July 2007
05:12 GMT |
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This is the rarest and most mysterious orchid in the world and its vernacular name is the ghost orchid. Now, a specimen has been discovered growing high in an old cypress tree in Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Naples (southwest Florida).The Ghost Orchid (Polyrrhiza lindenii) is also called Palm Polly and White Frog Orc... |
13 July 2007
04:28 GMT |
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The kapok tree is going to solve a mystery that has puzzled the biologists for a long time: the similarity between African and South American rainforests.The two continents split 130 millions years ago; still, their forests are too similar, and it seems that 96 million years ago, they were still exchanging flora.A te... |
18 June 2007
05:32 GMT |
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Linden trees produce one of the most suave and persistent scent that a tree can produce but one of its relatives is the skunk of the fruits' world: the durian fruit, the product of the trees of the genus Durio. In Southeast Asia is named the "King of Fruits," even if airlines, subways, hotels and public transpor... |
12 June 2007
02:06 GMT |
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David Livingstone said about this tree that "it's like a carrot planted upside down". The baobab (Adansonia digitata) is named after the first explorer who discovered it, Michel Adanson, in 1749 in Senegal. There are 6 baobabs living in Madagascar, 1 in African savanna and 1 in the Australian savanna, like a pro... |
6 June 2007
11:11 GMT |
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This plant seems to be born from the imagination of the science fiction movie makers. Welwitschia mirabilis is just a snag with only two leaves and it has been called officially the most hideous plant on Earth at Chelsea Flower Show. This plant grows just on the dunes of Namibia's and Angola's Skeleton Coas... |
4 June 2007
09:26 GMT |
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Your strategy of "conquering" a girl includes a bottle of good wine or Champaign, but have you ever wondered where does the cork come from?Cork is the product of an oak!In some coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, like Spain, France, Italy, but also in the African coast (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) and outside (Portuga... |
5 March 2007
10:46 GMT |
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