#Fukushima grows sunflowers to clean up radiation contamination A geiger counter is placed in front of sunflowers in full bloom in Fukushima.
tucked between deep green hills and lush forests. I planted the sunflowers from the temple alongside other vegetables
7th grader Aidan Dwyer was walking in the woods during the winter, and looking up, he noticed something about the bare branches above him.
We found a great specimen standing in a patch of forest outside of Anderson, Indiana.
#Wood is extracted#to build the concession stand. The roots have many edible features, such as root bark used to make tea
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To feed so many people may require expanding farmland at the expense of forests and wilderness,
They are all set in the forest where we live, a refinement of the local conditions.
It is important that we find another way to value the forest, rather than to cut the trees for industrial use.
This Boreal forest is one of the Earths lungs. We need to look after it. Our inspiration came from the documentary film Trã¤dã¤lskaren#(Treelover) by Jonas Selberg Augustsen.
Economic damage to agriculture, timber, and landscaping by deer totals more than $1. 2 billion a year.
Landscaped in an ornate forest setting, large stones and boulders will protrude along the cobblestone trails.
Pale golden musk, honeycomb, amber, parma violet, hawthorne bark, aspen leaf, forest lily, life everlasting, white moss,
they clearly show how bats have enormous potential to influence the economics of agriculture and forestry.#
grows out of a zombie#ants head in a Brazilian rain forest. Originally thought to be a single species, called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis,
All four known fungi species live in Brazils Atlantic rain forest, which is rapidly changing due to climate change
This potentially means thousands of zombie fungi in tropical forests across the globe await discovery, #he said.
#Healthy Camponotus rufipes ants scamper across a Brazilian forest floor. The four newly identified zombie#fungi species use different techniques to spread after infecting an ant, the researchers found.
Hughes plans to remedy that#nd expects to find many more zombie fungus species in the forests of Brazil.
At Wake Forest University the monkeys are housed in pairs and separated only at meal times
#Unraveling The Secrets of Antarcticaâ##s Fossilized Forests The Fossilized Tree Rings Dont Lie It may be hard to believe,
but Antarctica was covered once in towering forests. One hundred million years ago, the Earth was in the grip of an extreme Greenhouse effect.
could these ancient forests be a taste of things to come? It may be hard to believe,
but Antarctica was covered once in towering forests. One hundred million years ago, the Earth was in the grip of an extreme Greenhouse effect.
could these ancient forests be a taste of things to come? One of the first people to uncover evidence for a once greener Antarctic was none other than the explorer, Robert Falcon Scott.
Forests in the frost Professor Jane Francis of the University of Leeds is an intrepid explorer who has followed in Scotts footsteps.
the forests can absorb around 1. 5 billion tons of CO2 each year, however researchers estimate that the forests will not be able to absorb as much in 2010 and 2011.
Further the trees killed from drought rot in the coming years will release over 5 billion tons of CO2#nearly equivalent to the amount of carbon released by the US in 2009 from the burning of fossil fuels.
They wont know the full impact of the droughts until they can complete forest measurements
#Unknown and Uncontacted Tribe Photographed in Amazon Jungle About 100 uncontacted tribes are believed to exist worldwide.
A previously uncontacted tribe has been found in Amazon jungle, with aerial photographs giving a glimpse of people whove had known no contact with anyone except their tribal neighbors.
and mining come foreign diseases and the destruction of forests on which tribes rely. Some uncontacted people have fled from Peru into western Brazil,
Some of this capability is available now in rudimentary form in computer games where the controller shakes to indicate an on-screen car collision. 2. Seeing the forest,
Before the Christian era, the island was home to thick oak forests and productive vineyards. Its reputation as a health destination dates back 25 centuries,
#How organized crime is destroying the rainforests Organized crime is behind the trade in illegal timber in the rainforests.
which controls up to 30 per cent of the global timber trade, according to a new report from the United nations Environment Program.
hacking trade databases, bribing officials, concealing timber s true origin, and hiding illegal timber amid legal stocks.
International crime organizations that get involved in the timber trade bring considerable resources and expertise.
They are attracted by both the profits and the low risk of being caught: shipping timber, unlike ivory or drugs, is not illegal.
What we re shocked about is the sheer scale of timber that goes unaccounted for,
#Nelleman says. In 2008, for instance, Indonesia officially exported 18.6 million more cubic meters of wood than in 2000.
This additional wood ostensibly came from legal plantations, but most of these turned out to be bogus.
Loggers simply cut down forests instead. Against this sort of enemy, what can be done? In June, Interpol established a pilot program called Law enforcement Assistance for Forests (LEAF.
It will attempt to coordinate the efforts of police and intelligence agencies to fight illegal timber internationally.
There will be more emphasis on catching the ringleaders and the mafia behind them,#says Nelleman. Via New Scientist Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati n
#Students and teachers push back on healthier school lunches New government nutrition standards went into effect this year in a bid to combat childhood obesity.
a technician named Kevin Timmer who worked at the Woodland Mall store in Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Our early human ancestors could hear a dangerous predator stalking them through the forest, while today we hear the motor of an approaching car.
and it s awesome. 1. Electric Clothes Physicists at Wake Forest University have developed a fabric that doubles as a spare outlet.
#Bosco Verticale world s first vertical forest Bosco Verticale A forest will soon be planted in the sky in Milan, Italy.
Construction is underway for a pair of skyscrapers that will become home to the world s first vertical forest.
Pics) The vertical forest is the brainchild of architect Stefano Boeri. The 5 million Bosco Verticale is already under construction,
Future Forest, has recruited Korean and Chinese students to help plant some 4 million trees in an effort to prevent the eastward spread of the deserts,
Over five years of digging through forest beds in the rain, the team has identified an entirely new family of amphibians called chikilidae endemic to the region but with ancient links to Africa.
#The chikilidae s home in long-ignored tropical forests now faces drastic change under programs to cut trees,
who even passed out in the forest once, and some days found not even one specimen.
and spread on a glass substrate that s covered in a forest of zinc oxide nanowires and titanium dioxide sponges.#
which reaches average concentrations of 70 times higher in roadside ponds compared to woodland ponds located several hundred feet from the road.
and set the stage for fast evolution,#said Steven Brady, the study s author and a doctoral student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
whereas 87 percent survive in the woodland ponds. As roadside ponds become more toxic, the surviving salamanders may develop a genetic advantage over their counterparts living in woodland ponds.
The salamanders that survive year after year in the roadside ponds appear to have adapted to the harsh conditions.
The animals that come from roadside ponds actually do better#substantially better#than the ones that originate from woodland ponds
#Brady observed the development of the salamanders in 10 ponds#five roadside and five woodland#at Yale Myers Forest and in the town of Willington, both in northeastern Connecticut.
which is defined again by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture).
it becomes difficult to imagine Earth s pristine forests as merely places where life can thrive,
and Yemen. Reclaimed desert around the capital is a lush green tapestry of farmland and tropical forest,
but finding a specific plant growing in a jungle. We are going to need help navigating that information to find the thing we actually need.
A vanilla flavoring that promises to be significantly cheaper than the costly extract made from beans grown in rain forests is scheduled to hit the markets in 2014.
Cultivated in the remote forests of Madagascar, Mexico and the West indies, natural vanilla is one of the world s most revered spices.
Fogquest http://www. fogquest. org Fogquest is a Canadian nonprofit that uses modern fog collectors to bring drinking water and water for irrigation and reforestation to rural communities in developing countries
Some of the planned uses are for forests camping, fire suppression, agriculture, livestock, and human consumption.
-use unmanned helicopters began with a request in 1983 from the external branch of the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,
it never crossed his mind that each of the letters he was carefully carving from wood would some day be generated with far more accuracy through super tiny dots, known as pixels.
Eye forest, yet most of us can t see the forest for the trees!..Could there possibly be a better reason why you shouldn t text and drive?..
#Sahara Forest Project multi-technology synergy to grow food in the desert Revegetation and creation of green jobs through profitable production of food, freshwater, biofuels and electricity.
The Sahara Forest Project in Qatar is putting together a number of different systems in a complex project intended to#oeproduce food,
The True Cost of Forest fires In 2012 the U s. Forest Service had a budget of $948 million for fire suppression, a decrease of nearly $500 million from 2011.
A 2010 report titled#oethe True Cost of Wildfire in the Western U s.#published by the Western Forestry Leadership Coalition challenged traditional methods for calculating the cost of forest fires.
After a thorough investigation of the fire by the U s. Forestry Service, the true costs were recalculated as follows:
However, this same technology can be modified to work on flying drones to monitor fire activity on forestlands.
In 2012 the U s. Forest Service, which manages over 35 million acres of forests, made a major policy shift,
deciding to intervene on all fires, something environmentalists contend will cause significant long-term damage. As an example, the Northern Rockies have a long history of wilderness fire
and the National park service so far have not followed the Forest Service s lead. So if we have the capability of spotting fires very early
Admittedly, managing a 24/7-drone fleet over our massively huge forestlands will be no small undertaking.
Starting with only a portion of the combined budgets of the U s. Forest Service bureau of Land Management,
According to architect Philip Beesley, our cities of smooth stone and steel may become more like floating forests with buildings that can think
Instead of hard, polished building faces, emerging prototypes from some of the world s research centres suggest future cities might begin to resemble artificial floating forests.
The shapes that are common within life-giving forests and jungles are the opposite of abstract cubes and spheres.
The densely layered forms of a jungle are made often of diffusive deeply interwoven material that expand
and interact with their surroundings. A new city capable of handling unstable conditions where it could shed heat,
and gain heat again might look like a forest. Each building could be made from dense layers of ivy-like filters and multiple overlapping layers of openings.
and also as cattle Feed in the accompanying press release Eva Muller, Director of FAO s Forest Economic policy and Products Division,
Chris Reij, a sustainable land management specialist at VU University Amsterdam, has studied reforestation efforts there,
With hair like this, he could#oeout-king#the king of the jungle any day!..
The lamp that turns your room into a forest. A very creepy forest!..Whoa! Looks like I just dove into the red sea!..
Rule of thumb! To be considered an expert, it helps to look grumpy!..I ll miss you Dad!..
The botanist has been draping the walls with plants from rain forests for a good 30 years now.
limited supplies of cheap wood meant that split-rail fencing cost more than the land it enclosed.
The US Forest Service over in Globe, Arizona, is interested in possibly using virtual fencing. Some of the mining companies over there have leases that say that before they extract the ore,
River Forest Public library in River Forest, Illinois) Kansas Hog-butchering demonstration (Central Resource Library, Overland Park, KS)# entioned in a recent Wall street journal article
When the U s. Forest Service looked at mortality rates in counties affected by the emerald ash borer,
When the U s. Forest Service looked at mortality rates in counties affected by the emerald ash borer,
The Forest Service put a 3. 8 billion dollar value on the air pollution annually removed by urban trees.
The increases in mortality identified by the Forest Service study, meanwhile, were pronounced more in counties where the median household income was above average.
#and it is commonly more than that#sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields,
Last year, Harvard university researchers led by engineering professor Robert Wood introduced the first Robobees, bee-size robots with the ability to lift off the ground
Wood and colleagues wrote in an article for Scientific American. The hive must be resilient enough
Although Wood wrote that CCD and the threat it poses to agriculture were part of the original inspiration for creating a robotic bee,
#Solar Forest provides a charging station for electric cars Solar Forest We aren t out of the woods yet
Each of the trees in Neville Mars s solar forest is composed of a set of photovoltaic leaves mounted on an elegantly branching poll.
The solar forest is certainly an aesthetic step up from your standard sunbaked concrete parking lot, and serves as great inspiration for integrating solar technology with natural forms.
Fundamental additions to the automated farm, these sensors would enable a real time understanding of current farm, forest or body of water conditions.
and a wood-burning furnace to heat the greenhouse in the winter. The greenhouse itself is made Amish,
 Increasingly longer hours spent inside office buildings and homes rather than visually stimulating landscapes like forests and other natural spaces can also lead to sight problems Lieberman said.
During his presidency (1901-1909) he preserved more than 230 million acres (93 million hectares) of wilderness created the U s Forest Service aggressively pursued soil
and water conservation and established more than 200 national forests national monuments national parks and wildlife refuges. As governor of New york Roosevelt even outlawed the use of feathers in clothing like hats to prevent the slaughter of exotic birds.
Orangutans In Borneo and Sumatra large companies are destroying forests and replacing them with big swaths of palm tree monocultures (plots where only one plant is grown
or threatened mostly due to the clearing of the island's forests according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) a global environmental organization that's 91 percent of all lemur species for
Even now surrounded as many of you are by urban centers devoid of forests and most wildlife people depend on plants and animals for survival.
and tigers often associated with the jungles butâ rainforest-dwelling arthropodsâ (a group that includes insects arachnids and crustaceans all of
The forests also supply the planet with an enormous supply of oxygen. Even so from 2000 to 2010 for example about 93000 square miles (240000 square kilometers) of the Amazon rainforest were razed covering an area roughly the size of the United kingdom. 3. Protect areas with high biodiversity Not all areas are created equal.
But forest and grassland habitat on this island off the coast of Africa is being destroyed rapidly;
Madagascar has lost at least 90 percent of its original forest cover. Another jewel would be the Philippines
12 New Alaskan Volcanoes In Alaska scores of volcanoes and strange lava flows have escaped scrutiny for decades shrouded by lush forests
and 25 known volcanic vents and lava flows reevaluated thanks to dogged work by geologists with the U s. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U s. Forest Service.
We're convinced now there's probably a whole bunch of green knobs out there covered with timber that may be vents that may have never been mapped said James Baichtal a geologist with the U s. Forest Service based in Thorne Bay Alaska and a project leader.
#A few Tree Species Dominate Amazon Rain forest The Amazon is the largest and most diverse rain forest in the world about 10 percent of all known species On earth dwell there
but only a few dozen of the Amazon's thousands of tree species rule the jungle researchers recently found.
Until now researchers'knowledge of the types of trees in the Amazon and where they were located was based on analyses of regions the rain forest's vast expanse made it challenging to survey in its entirety.
To help shed light on this giant rain forest's tree composition more than 120 scientists catalogued any trees with stems thicker than 3. 9 inches (10 centimeters) at 1170 different locations throughout Amazonia the 2. 3
Trees That Dominate the Rain forest'Hyperdominant'trees Of these 16000 tree species scientists unexpectedly discovered that only 227 species
That's a much smaller number than anyone anticipated study lead author Hans ter Steege a tropical forest ecologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden Netherlands said in a statement.
or two types of forest such as swamps or white-sand forests. It remains unclear what makes any given species hyperdominant.
The Asian needle ant is moving into forests and urban environments at the same time. And because it is active at cooler temperatures it could move into a very broad range of territory Spicer Rice said.
Op-Ed Steve Schwartzman director of tropical forests policy for the Environmental Defense Fundâ contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
and a highly skilled forest farmer and like most of his peers across the Amazon he pays very careful attention to
what the myriad plants and animals of the forest are doing at different times of the year and to the weather.
Ntã'ni and other people in the Xingu also say that the way fire behaves in the forest has changed.
and resource management tool for millennia to clear forest to plant crops add nutrients to soil clear trails collect honey
The sort of data-driven climate models that scientists like Muller work with predict that such land on the border between forest
Drought and the wildfires that come with it could turn the forests of the Kisã djã into savanna.
 In the last 20 years the forests of the upper headwaters of the Xingu have been cleared for cattle ranching
and the other peoples of the Xingu Park live on an island of forest in a sea of deforestation.
Bad things can happen to people who cut down lots of forest and they may not even know it.
#Amazon river'Breathes'Carbon dioxide from Rain forest Bacteria living in the Amazon river can digest woody materials shed by the surrounding rain forest by turning these pieces of tree bark
and water into food in a process known as photosynthesis. As they grow bits of wood and leaves are shed that eventually decompose on the ground
In fact only 5 percent of the Amazon rain forest's plant-based carbon ends up reaching the ocean the researchers said.
#Ancient Forest Thaws From Melting Glacial Tomb An ancient forest has thawed from under a melting glacier in Alaska
Mostly people find chunks of wood helter-skelter but to see these intact upright is kind of cool.
when the glacier was said advancing Connor basing the date on radiocarbon ages of the newly revealed wood.
Taku Glacier located south of Juneau is currently triggering this same process as it advances over a modern forest of cottonwood trees offering the researchers a chance to observe the process in real time Connor said.
which suggest the original tree towered to more than 100â meters (330 feet) in a wet tropical forest some 800000 years ago.
The sediments in which the fossil trees were found suggest that they lived in a wet forest at the edge of a lowland plain.
A small section of a large petrified log was found ten years ago by a villager in a reserve forest at Ban Tak District Tak Province.
what is considered the world s longest piece of petrified wood with a length of 72.22 meters (236.9 feet) the researchers report. oein 2006 the name of the park was changed to the Petrified Forest Park because of the fascinating discoveries.
but a dense forest and a competition for sunlight is part of it. It seems likely that over hundreds of millions of years that plants have been around there have been lots of very tall tree species probably from every family of plant.
Substitute the snowy surface with the darker surface of a coniferous tree and the darker surface stores more heat said study co-author Pieter Beck a vegetative ecologist at the Woods Hole Research center in Massachusetts It's going to exacerbate warming.
The tree line would also shift north with coniferous forests sprouting where shrubs once grew. Most of the greening was driven by the loss of reflectivity or albedo from snow cover.
The events in Dzanga Bai are a vivid reminder of the existential threat faced by forest elephants in Central africa Leape said.
and other places where eucalyptus trees native to Australia but now found throughout the world have spread as an invasive species. Raging Western Wildfires in Photos Looking at the eucalyptus forest outside my window in Tasmania I see a gigantic fire
hazard David Bowman a forest ecologist at the University of Tasmania in Australia told KQED.
and the trees'bark peels off in long streamers that drop to the ground providing additional fuel that draws ground fires up into the leaves creating massive fast-spreading crown fires in the upper story of eucalyptus forests.
The Black forest wildfire which started on June 11 was the most destructive wildfire in Colorado's history;
At the same time climate change increases the vulnerability of forests to bark beetle attacks. It does so by triggering droughts that subject trees to water stress
 Wood bison a subspecies of the more familiarâ plains bison once lived throughout Alaska
Now there are 10000 free-ranging wood bison in Canada including about 4500 in seven free-ranging disease-free herds the agency noted.
 Wood bison have already been introduced to Russia where scientists are trying to establish breeding populations of the animalsâ according to the Edmonton Journal.
In addition the panda's primary habitat is located in the forests of China's Yangtze Basin region the capital of China's economic boom.
#Bushmeat Trade Is Transforming Rain forest Bushmeat hunting or the hunting of meat from wild animals may be transforming the rain forests in Africa.
When hunters kill gorillas and other primates for their meat the primates no longer disperse the seeds of some fruit
instead according to a study published today (March 19) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The seedling communities of the forest floors are really different in a hunted forest compared to a well-protected forest said study co-author Ola Olsson an ecologist
In the long run that's going to make the hunted forest look quite different from what they do today The hunting could also impact the people who rely on fruits from the trees for food Olsson added.
25 Primates in Peril Population increases have forced people to live at the forest's edges.
Hunted and protected To find out how primate hunting affected the forest Olsson and his colleagues surveyed trees and mammals in the Nigerian rain forest bordering Cameroon.
Park rangers protected some forested areas which teem with monkeys and gorillas while nearby hunted areas were full of rodents such as rats and porcupines.
Well-protected forests had many seedlings such as the bush mango that rely on primates to spread their seeds.
Hunted forests held seedling species that relied on wind to disperse their seeds. In a generation that could fundamentally change the forest ecology he said.
And whereas gorilla and monkey meat does provide protein for local people the fruit trees the primates maintain may be an even bigger economic benefit to people Olsson said.
Without primates and other large-bodied mammals forests are not regenerating in the way they've evolved to do over millions of years Lambert said.
Random killing of wolves in the forests and wilderness won't do a thing to further mitigate the remote likelihood of a wolf incident.
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