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Within roughly 15 years, frankincense production will decrease to half its current levels. Beyond that, it will only continue to decline, though the exact pace at which this will happen is still unknown. The trees that produce the resin are severely endangered, and currently in sharp decline.
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21 December 2011
05:42 GMT |
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An entire sector of the African continent is slowly dying. Trees and other types of vegetation in the Sahel are slowly being killed by global warming and the climate change it produces, experts announce.
The Sahel begins just south of the Sahara Desert, and represents a buffer zone between the wasteland and more we... |
13 December 2011
05:06 GMT |
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A researcher teams up with the owner of a gas company and decides to find out how leaky Boston's gas system really is. Their findings are quite shocking. They indicate a severe problem represented by over 4,000 gas leaks distributed all across the historical city.
Biologist Nathan Phillips at Boston University... |
22 November 2011
08:26 GMT |
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Woodlands are ecosystems that operate in mysterious ways. Even so, Czech scientists succeeded in finding out how trees in dense forests cope with a decreased level of sunlight absorption and how their mechanism of capturing carbon for photosynthesis turns out to be effective in these conditions.
Their discovery is ... |
21 November 2011
06:41 GMT |
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It's no secret that global warming has a great influence upon the environment. First, scientists found out that increased temperatures are responsible for the fact that small creatures and plants are shrinking. Now, researchers discovered that climate change might imply another effect, making the species of tree... |
31 October 2011
11:46 GMT |
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is funding investigators from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in a new study meant to assess the intricacies of Earth's water cycle in detail. The work could help address issues such as drought, which is currently threatening huge surfaces. According to res... |
24 October 2011
06:58 GMT |
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Scientists conducting isotopic analysis of ancient African soils have determined that our earliest ancestors and their ape cousins spent the past 6 millions years or so evolving in tree-dotted savannas.This is the type of landscape that prevailed throughout the vast majority of east Africa, where the first hominids a... |
4 August 2011
03:47 GMT |
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Astronomers have now set their eyes on developing methods of identifying signs of multicellular life on the extrasolar planets they are seeing. To that end, a group of experts recently developed a new mathematical technique, that could allow for scientists to identify such objects. In the early days of exoplanetary r... |
20 May 2011
05:06 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific research, it would appear that the surface of extra solar planets orbiting binary star system may be covered in trees that are black, rather than the usual green.This is equally true for all forms of vegetation, the researchers who conducted the new work say. They expl... |
19 April 2011
02:33 GMT |
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Scientists have recently finished an 18-year-long study on the effects of climate on tree fecundity and growth, and the conclusions are not all that encouraging. It was found that the ability trees have, of producing viable seeds, is much more reliant on climate change than was originally believed. This major study i... |
5 April 2011
16:01 GMT |
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During the second half of 2010, Pakistan was severely affected by floods. The effects of the disastrous events were seen even from satellites and astronauts in space, but some of them have eluded detection until recently. Such is the case of tree-based spider colonies. As 20 percent of the country's territory be... |
31 March 2011
03:25 GMT |
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Researchers in the United Kingdom are currently racing around the clock to find and preserve ancient trees buried underneath peat bogs in New Zealand. The investigators believe that the rings inside these trees might tell them more about how Earth's climate looked like about 30,000 years ago.With these data in o... |
11 February 2011
09:52 GMT |
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Once Christmas is gone and the tinsel and balls have been removed from the fir, most Christmas trees end up in the trash. But soon, thanks to a brilliant idea of a researcher from the University of Leeds, UK, Xmas trees could be useful even after they lose their glow.Jenny Jones thought of a special roasting process ... |
27 December 2010
10:20 GMT |
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While you would expect forests to have a cooling effect on the environment during heatwaves, new research suggests that this is not the case when the extreme atmospheric events set in. When temperatures start rising at the start of an ensuing heatwave, woodlands are actually a lot slower to cool the air than grasslan... |
29 October 2010
10:22 GMT |
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New evidence would appear to suggest that forests can at times support the development of heatwaves, but also show that the trees ultimately promote cooling, if the heatwaves spans a long period of time.At first, when temperatures soar, trees reduce the amount of evaporation they usually produce. This leads to a rise... |
6 September 2010
09:29 GMT |
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Experts say that plans of eliminating the negative effects that the elk population is having on aspen trees by reintroducing wolves are failing in the Yellowstone National Park. The gray wolves have again be allowed to repopulated the landscape, as experts expected this would ensure the elk population is kept under c... |
4 September 2010
07:09 GMT |
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In a classic case of David versus Goliath, a certain type of ants has recently been shown capable of deterring elephants from eating Acacia drepanolobium trees. At first, very few people believe that the small insects can have any possible influence on a creature countless times larger than they are. However, th... |
3 September 2010
03:58 GMT |
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One of the main arguments that critics to global warming and climate change have been citing when arguing for their point of view is the fact that some areas in the Arctic are cooling, not getting warmer. And there was a time when their argument held value, but that time has long since passed, experts say. At this po... |
2 August 2010
03:02 GMT |
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It's a well-known fact that humans cannot survive without the thousands of species of bacteria that exist within our guts. They help us break down certain compounds, so that we can make the most out of what we eat. But a new study shows that we are not the only species who engages in such behavior. Certain speci... |
30 July 2010
10:51 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that many trees act like giant chimneys for microbes, releasing the methane gas the microorganisms produce into the planet's atmosphere. This is extremely dangerous when considering that levels of the potent greenhouse gas, which is a lot more harmful than car... |
17 February 2010
05:29 GMT |
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In a rare investigation on how ecosystems respond to the growing influence of global warming and climate change, researchers at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center have determined that trees in the Eastern United States are now growing faster than they did in the past 225 years. The find is unique in the se... |
2 February 2010
08:39 GMT |
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Scientists have sought for a long time a potential solution to a very disturbing problem for the game industry, namely how to ensure that the most accurate environment is portrayed in computer games. At this point, animators have two options in this regard, to either create a static background, or proceed to model ea... |
25 January 2010
10:02 GMT |
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In a series of new images captured by a NASA orbiter around Mars, the Red Planet reveals a number of peculiar structures on its surface, very close to the north pole. According to the experts who got a chance to look at the images, these formations can easily be identified as trees by laypersons, but they argue that ... |
14 January 2010
03:29 GMT |
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According to a scientist, it may be that an actual tree for Christmas is greener than a fake, plastic one. The biologist, who is based at the Saint Joseph's University, in Philadelphia, believes that his idea may seem a little bit counterintuitive at first, but says that his arguments are valid, and should not b... |
11 December 2009
05:52 GMT |
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In a new series of studies, experts have determined that planting new trees, and creating forests, in areas that previously had none, can have negative, long-term side-effects on the water flows of the region. This type of research is extremely important for policymakers, especially considering that the fight against... |
9 November 2009
02:38 GMT |
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The amount of cosmic rays circulating in the solar system should be of interest to everyone. As the Sun gets weaker over the course of the solar minimum, more and more radiation reaches our planet, passes the atmosphere and heads down to the earth. Apparently, not all its effects are bad. Experts in the United Kingdo... |
19 October 2009
08:49 GMT |
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In an age when dinosaurs were still unheard of, animals living at the middle of the food chain had to adapt to being hunted down and killed by just about everyone else. And seeing how the largest and vicious predators owned the land, these animals turned to trees. The plants offered a rich source of food, and also pr... |
29 July 2009
02:46 GMT |
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Thanks to research conducted by experts at the Ohio State University, drivers around the world may drive cars outfitted with tires made partly out of tree fibers in a few years. The “active ingredient” in the new materials is microcrystalline cellulose, a compound that can easily be extracted from plant f... |
22 July 2009
08:47 GMT |
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A new study has recently revealed that it may be more constructive to plant trees in the middle of the street using a more widely spaced layout plan than cramming many in the same place. According to the paper, while those plants with some distance between them are very efficient at soaking up carbon dioxide, those t... |
21 July 2009
03:06 GMT |
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Aphids are generally known for having a society that is separated in classes, in which workers collect food, soldiers fight enemies, and others attend to the youngsters. But a new research has revealed that these tiny insects are full of surprises. Scientists noted that the soldier class not only engaged in battles, ... |
6 July 2009
04:38 GMT |
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In their travels around the world, to places no one had gone before, old-era naturalists were amazed to discover enormous plant species in the tropical regions, and in other exotic places, and they could not explain why this was happening. Now, researchers have managed to finally elaborate a theory that explains why ... |
24 June 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Life in the rural areas of the African nation of Ghana is not as “independent” as one may think, as far as having everything you need around the house goes. In these regions, trees and forests are vital for people in forsaken villages who have been living in harmony with nature for several thousand years.... |
20 March 2009
10:59 GMT |
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Every single kid wants to have his or her tree house, complete with kitchen, lobby, and, if possible, more than one room. Most parents only get to come with a basic structure, but, at a young age, that's better than nothing. Now, constructors in Sweden are building tree houses for mothers and fathers, which are ... |
6 February 2009
07:13 GMT |
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British inventors have managed to devise a new way of planting trees in devastated areas without having to go through the regular channels. They have created a helicopter-based delivery system that lets tree seedlings wrapped in small plastic cones fall. C-Questor of Weybridge, Surrey is behind the innovation, which ... |
31 January 2009
08:01 GMT |
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Due to extensive periods of poor management, Canadian forests have recently crossed a very dangerous line, when they started emitting more carbon dioxide than they stored. The main culprits for this situation are the pine beetle, which is already responsible for decimating tens of thousands of square miles of trees t... |
10 January 2009
03:55 GMT |
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The worsening condition of the environment around the Indonesian city of Balikpapan has prompted local authorities to introduce a "green" system – as they call it – of granting fiancées wedding certificates, and birth certificates to new parents. In order for these people to get what they want, the... |
25 November 2008
03:26 GMT |
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According to a new study led by biologists from the University of Pennsylvania, tree leaves maintain a constant temperature during photosynthesis, regardless of the latitude they inhabit. Researchers used to believe that the temperature of a leaf while converting sunlight and carbon dioxide into nutrients would equal... |
12 June 2008
10:40 GMT |
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