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#When trees die so do people When the U s. Forest Service looked at mortality rates in counties affected by the emerald ash borer,
they found increased mortality rates among people. In June 2002 was when the blight was detected first in the trees in Canton, Michigan.
The emerald ash borer had come from overseas and was quickly spreading a literal bug across state and national lines to Ohio, Minnesota, and Ontario.
It spread to more distant and seemingly random locations as the infested trees were shipped beyond the Midwest.
Within four years of first becoming infested the ash trees die#over 100 million since the plague began.
In some cases, their death has an immediate impact, as they fall on cars, houses, and people.
once tree-lined, are now bare. Something else, less readily apparent, may have happened as well. When the U s. Forest Service looked at mortality rates in counties affected by the emerald ash borer,
they found increased mortality rates. Specifically, more people were dying of cardiovascular and lower respiratory tract illness#the first and third most common causes of death in the U s as the infestation took over in each of these places
The#oerelationship between trees and human health, #as they put it, is convincingly strong. They controlled for as many other demographic factors as possible.
In a literal sense, of course, the absence of trees would mean the near absence of oxygen#on the most basic level,
that trees act as a natural filter, cleaning the air from pollutants, with measurable effects in urban areas.
The Forest Service put a 3. 8 billion dollar value on the air pollution annually removed by urban trees.
trees remove nitrogen dioxide to an extent equivalent to taking 274,000 cars off the traffic-packed beltway, saving an estimated $51 million in annual pollution-related health care costs.
But a line of modern thought suggests that trees and other elements of natural environments might affect our health in more nuanced ways as well.
Those with trees outside their window recovered faster and requested fewer pain medications, than those with a#oebuilt#view.
what we intuitively know about the presence of trees: In wealthier communities, they increase the market value of homes,
as he spoke of his appreciation for the trees seen from his window in the final months of his life.
Perhaps we would want flavored water like cherry water, tea water, coffee water, or chocolate water.
and much more. 2. Water Harvesting Irrigation Spikes Will it someday be possible to add atmospheric water harvesting ground-spikes next to every plant or tree in our garden?
So, designer Neville Mars has conceived of an incredible EV charging station that takes the form of an evergreen glade of solar trees.
Each of the trees in Neville Mars s solar forest is composed of a set of photovoltaic leaves mounted on an elegantly branching poll.
Neville told Inhabitat that the tree and leaf design wasn t a goal but came naturally as they tried to maximize the shaded surface that the structures provide.
Kansas 125,902 89 Arvada, Colo. 106,965 88 Downey, Calif. 111,807 88 Pembroke Pines, Fla. 155,578 88 Torrance, Calif. 145,443 88
77 Palm Bay, Fla. 102,814 77 Port St. Lucie, Fla. 163,748 77 Palmdale, Calif. 151,841 75 Victorville, Calif. 115,069 73
. 101,339 68 Thousand Oaks, Calif. 126,570 68 Elk Grove, Calif. 151,639 67 Frisco, Texas 116,944 61 Naperville, Ill. 142,143 56
enjoy coffee from free Starbucks dispensers and Coke machines rigged to dispense drinks for 25 cents.
The latest round was led by Sequoia Capital one of the biggest backers of Webvan. Sequoia Chairman Michael Moritz, who suffered mightily during the Webvan debacle,
joked to the San jose mercury news in February thatwe all held hands and prayed before turning over a round of $8. 5 million to Instacart.
Plant-Jackers and Tree-Jackers Plant and tree alteration specialists, who manipulate growth patterns, create grow-to-fit wood products, color-changing leaves, personalized fruit, etc. 129.
Just outside Saint peter's Basilica also accompanied by a large Christmas tree the life-size scene is unveiled not until Christmas eve.
North pole H0h 0h0 Canada 9. The Glass Pickle While this story's origins are said to be Germanic the tale goes that the glass pickle is the last ornament hung on the Christmas tree hidden somewhere among the decorations.
Or if you don't like coffee try black tea the second most consumed antioxidant source. Bananas dry beans and corn wrap up the top five.
But researchers say in humans coffee might enhance the sexual experience only among people who are not habitual users.
But the research was done on people who were not regular coffee drinkers. Health experts advise avoiding it for 6 hours before bedtime.
If you drink five to 10 cups of decaffeinated coffee you could get as much caffeine as from one or two cups of caffeinated coffee a study found.
Caffeine is not the main bitter compound in coffee. Rather the pungent perpetrators are antioxidants.
When it comes to great flavor coffee chemistry boils down to roasting and brewing. During roasting oil locked inside the beans begins to emerge at around 400 degrees.
Caffeine content goes up as the water spends more time in contact with the grounds so regular coffee often has more of it than espresso or cappuccino.
and touched a tree limb it short-circuited that was at 2 p m . and occurred south of Cleveland.
and short-circuiting to a tree. Obvious to the experts this blackout could have been prevented if the grid reliability rules including tree trimming were mandatory
and the system needs for communications and cooperation were enforceable. While the attention of utilities and politicians has been on the largest power plants the practices for running the system were neglected in 2003.
and downed trees cut power to 8. 2 million people in 17 states the District of Columbiaand Canada many for two weeks.
Windstorm damaged trees and equipment cut power to approximately 4. 2 million customers across 11 Midwest and Mid-atlantic states and the District of columbia.
Widespread tree clearing and line restoration efforts in many cases took 7 to 10 days.
A record early snowstorm brought down trees and wires. Outage restoration could only follow the removal of snow and fallen trees.
More than three million customers in Mid-atlantic and New england states were without power many for 10 days.
inadequate tree trimming caused a short circuit; and operators lacked coordination. System imbalances and overloads seen early in the day were corrected not due to lack of coordination enforcement. 50 million people across eight states
and sagged into a tree. Then a protective device on a parallel transmission line incorrectly tripped.
Hot weather and inadequate tree trimming set up a transmission collapse. Through the afternoon five power lines in Oregon and nearby Washington short-circuited on trees.
This tripped-off 13 hydro-power turbines operated by BPA at Mcnary Dam on the Columbia river.
Blame fell on inadequate tree-trimming practices improper operating studies and incorrect instructions to dispatchers.
and baby panda born to Mei Xian on Aug 23 the zoo tweeted Monday that The cams (incl. the panda cams) require federal resources especially staff to run.
See Photos of Mei Xiang's Adorable Panda Cub 3. Â KKK hindered by shutdown The Ku klux klan had to cancel a rally planned for Saturday Oct 5 at Gettysburg National Military Park in Adams County Penn
or to property although occasionally a car parked under a cicada-infested tree could get covered in small droppings.
They are literally everywhere crawling over every tree every building everywhere. It's an amazing number of individual animals said Chris Hartley an entomologist at the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House of the Missouri Botanical garden.
Hormones drive the cycle Cicadas (erroneously called locusts) are backed large dark insects related to aphids and leafhoppers.
which can damage the branches on a small tree. A single female can produce hundreds of eggs across several batches.
and burrow into the soil to feed on plant and tree roots. The larvae have mouths that behave like a hypodermic needle Fredericks said which sticks into tree tissue
and takes the juices out. The larvae go through several stages of youth. In annual cicadas these stages pass quickly
and baby panda born to Mei Xian on Aug 23 the zoo tweeted Monday that "
<a href=http://www. livescience. com/39153-giant-panda-mei-xiang-gives-birth-photos. html>See Photos of Mei Xiang'
or a tree nut containing most of the nutrients so there's no advantage to taking it out.
because their nutritional characteristics and health benefits closely match those of tree nuts.)In fact removing the oil makes things worse
Modern technology allows humans to extract sugar from a wide range of sources including sugar cane maple trees beehives
and replacing them with big swaths of palm tree monocultures (plots where only one plant is grown
The grubs are harvested from underground where they feed upon the roots of Australian trees such as eucalyptus and black wattle trees.
African palm weevil A delicacy among many African tribes the palm weevil (Rhychophorus phoenicis) is collected off the trunks of palm trees.
A 2011 report from the Journal of Insect Science found that the African palm weevil is an excellent source of several nutrients such as potassium zinc iron and phosphorous as well as several amino acids and healthy
Like true panda bears red pandas spend much of their time munching on bamboo up in tree limbs.
but aside from that these tree-dwelling fruit-eating mammals have little in common with their namesakes. m
compounds derived from these plants have been used to create many medicines including the antimalarial drug quinine originally found in the Amazon's cinchona tree.
The Bloomington Minn. mall which is so huge it could hold seven Yankee Stadiums also has more than 30000 live plants including about 400 trees
and exited thus the chimney story. 2. Mushrooms like gifts are found beneath pine trees. That's just one of the symbolic connections between the Amanita muscaria mushroom and the iconography of Christmas according to several historians and ethnomycologists or people who study fungi's influence on human societies.
History of Magic Mushrooms & Other Hallucinogens In his book Mushrooms and Mankind (The Book Tree 2003) the late author James Arthur points out that Amanita muscaria also known as fly agaric lives throughout the Northern hemisphere under conifers
and birch trees with which the fungi which are deep red with white flecks have a symbiotic relationship.
This partially explains the practice of the Christmas tree and the placement of bright red-and-white presents underneath it
Why do people bring pine trees into their houses at the winter solstice placing brightly colored (red-and-white) packages under their boughs as gifts to show their love for each other?
It is because underneath the pine bough is the exact location where one would find this'Most Sacred'substance the Amanita muscaria in the wild.
Tree ornaments shaped like Amanita mushrooms and other depictions of the fungi are also prevalent in Christmas decorations throughout the world particularly in Scandinavia
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East of Ketchikan a basalt flow lapped onto a 42000-year-old beach preserving shells pinecones pine needles and pollen.
#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.
which Amazon tree species face the most severe threats of extinction and which areas there are most in need of protection scientists added.
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.
For instance scientists didn't even know the most common tree species in the Amazon. 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
-million-square-mile area (6 million square kilometers) surrounding the Amazon river. They found that approximately 16000 tree species made up this region.
Amazon Photos: Trees That Dominate the Rain forest'Hyperdominant'trees Of these 16000 tree species scientists unexpectedly discovered that only 227 species
or 1. 4 percent of all the types of trees in Amazonia made up half of the nearly 400 billion total trees estimated to live there.
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.
There's a really interesting debate shaping up between people who think that hyperdominant trees are common
and people who think those trees were dominant long before modern humans ever arrived in The americas study co-author Nigel Pitman an ecologist
Incidentally the most common tree species in Amazonia is the palm species Euterpe precatoria a relative of the aã§aã palm Euterpe oleracea)
The scientists also estimated that 11000 of Amazonia's tree species are very rare which each of these rare types composed of fewer than 1 million trees and in total accounting for just 0. 12 percent of all trees in Amazonia.
Many of these tree types run a high risk of becoming extinct even before biologists can discover them the researchers said.
Better protection Now that scientists have a better idea of where populations of tree species are located in Amazonia they can figure out which Amazonian tree species might face the most severe threats of extinction.
We can better predict the effect of deforestation and protection on populations of trees ter Steege told Livescience's Ouramazingplanet.
In addition conservation groups can now better determine in which areas the richest most diverse and potentially endangered species are found Johan van de Gronden director of the World Wildlife Fund Netherlands said in a statement.
#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 releasing oxygen but show that the carbon dioxide doesn t necessarily stay trapped in the trees.
Researchers at the University of Washington found that bacteria in the Amazon river can break down almost all of the tree
A compound called lignin forms the main part of a tree's woody tissue and is the second most common component of terrestrial plants the researchers said.
and a woody room with wooden paneling and floorboards the sounds of leaves crunching and log fires and the smell of cedar wood.
#Ancient Arctic Algae Record Climate Change in'Tree Rings'Bright pink algae that light up the Arctic seafloor like Las vegas neon are also guides to hundreds of years of climate history
Undersea'tree rings'The species are called coralline algae because they deposit coral-like crusts of the mineral calcite on underwater rocks coating the rocks with colorful pink splotches.
when sea ice blocks incoming sunlight the calcite layers develop visible bands that are similar to tree rings Halfar said.
During the Little Ice age when volcanoes and sun cycle variations caused a global cooling from the 1300s to the 1800s the coral's underwater tree rings narrowed suggesting extensive sea ice cover and short summers.
(which is held by trees such as 5000-year-old bristlecone pines) the discovery does add to the list of long-lived cold-loving species. Sponges in Antarctica may live for up to 10000 years
and the roots of the trees are embedded in an upper terrace rather than in the earth.
what we describe as'browsers'which eat mostly leaves from trees and shrubs to what we call'grazers
However just within the past year or so researchers based at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau have noticed considerably more trees popping up many in their original upright position
because we can see the outermost part of the tree and count back to see how old the tree was Cathy Connor a geology professor at the University of Alaska Southeast who was involved in the investigation told Livescience's Ouramazingplanet.
Mostly people find chunks of wood helter-skelter but to see these intact upright is kind of cool.
The team has identified tentatively the trees as either spruce or hemlock based on the diameter of the trunks and because these are the types of trees growing in the region today Connor said
but the researchers still need to further assess the samples to verify the tree type. A protective tomb of gravel likely encased the trees more than 1000 years ago
when the glacier was said advancing Connor basing the date on radiocarbon ages of the newly revealed wood.
As glaciers advance Connor explained they often emit summer meltwater streams that spew aprons of gravel beyond the glacier's edge.
Shrinking Alaska Glacier Spied from Space A gravel layer about 4 to 5 feet (1. 2 to 1. 5 meters) high appears to have encased the trees before the glacier ultimately advanced enough to plow over them snapping off limbs and preserving
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.
The team plans to return to the Mendenhall Glacier to dig through sediment in search of pine needles associated with the trees along with other vegetation.
They also plan to measure the growth bands of the trees to determine how old the trees were died
#Ancient Giant Trees Found Petrified in Thailand Fossil trees that approached the heights of today s tallest redwoods have been found in northern Thailand.
which suggest the original tree towered to more than 100â meters (330 feet) in a wet tropical forest some 800000 years ago.
The trees appear to have been closely related to a species alive today called Koompassia elegans which belongs to the same family as beans peas
and black locust trees explained lead author of the study Marc Philippe of France s University of Lyon.
That is to say the ancient trees are not closely related to today s tallest trees which are the Eucalyptus gum trees) of Australia and Sequoia redwoods) of California.
Both of those living trees can reach about 130 meters (425 feet) in height. Interestingly there are no trees living today in Thailand that approach the size of the ancients.
Global Warming Pushing Trees North: The Evidence oehighest trees nowadays in Thailand are almost 60 meters (200 feet) Â wrote Philippe in response to my email query about his new paper coming out in the April issue of the journal Quaternary Science Reviews.
 To my knowledge the highest tree yet recorded in Thailand is a Krabak tree belonging to the Dipterocarpaceae (tropical oaks) 58 meters (190 feet) tall.
The sediments in which the fossil trees were found suggest that they lived in a wet forest at the edge of a lowland plain.
Today the fossil trees are at an elevation of 170 meters (550 feet) above sea level and the climate flips between wet and dry seasons
what s called monsoonal. Philippe says it s possible there has been some uplift of the region since the trees fell.
Just how these buried trees were found is an interesting story in itself. 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.
The discovery was reported to officials of the National park Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department and so an official came out to examine the log
and surveyed the surrounding area. The log was excavated then to a length of 21 meters (70 feet) without reaching the end.
Ground penetrating radar was brought in and found that 30 meters (100 feet) of trunk were unexposed still.
Big Old Trees in Decline Worldwide As to why there were big trees in the past that are unrelated to today s giant trees it appears to be just another case of
I m not sure what drives trees to grow taller 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.
Much like today's rodents multituberculates occupied an extremely diverse range of habitats such as below the ground on the ground and in trees.
& Other Ancient Mammals Some could jump some could burrow others could climb trees and many more lived on the ground said researcher Zhe-Xi Luo a paleontologist at the University of Chicago.
or more after R. eurasiaticus and were capable of tree climbing and jumping had the most interesting ankle bones capable of'hyper-back-rotation'of the hind feet.
However its highly flexible ankles suggest it could at least occasionally scamper up trees. If you look at squirrels you see similar adaptations Luo said.
and leaves of ferns and cycads or perhaps fished out clamlike creatures known as conchostracans from the water for food Luo said.
Flowering plants are now the dominant form of plant life on land evolving from relatives of seed-producing plants that do not flower such as conifers and cycads.
The tablets also contained starch pine resin beeswax and a mix of plant-and animal-derived fats perhaps including olive oil.
and medicines and pine resin may have kept the oil from going rancid and fought microbes due to its antiseptic properties.
These came from olive wheat and many other plants such as stinging nettles and alder trees. However about 60 percent of this pollen came from plants that are pollinated by insects such as bees suggesting they may inadvertently have hitched along in a bee product such as beeswax instead of getting intentionally added to the medicine.
''Last year in the Southwest the drought killed trees and desert plants and spawned unprecedented wildfires all related to a drought that wasn't as bad compared to
The researchers who will begin their mission in November aim to focus on shrinking glaciers in the Amundsen Sea region such as the Pine Island Glacier the longest and fastest-changing glacier on the ice sheet.
Stunning Photos of Antarctic Ice But Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are losing ice at a faster rate than they are being replenished Smith said in a statement.
and seismic technologies to map the area beneath the Pine Island Glacier and assess the state of the glacier bed to determine how subsurface conditions affect the flow and thickness of the ice.
#Antarctica Glacier's Retreat'Unprecedented'Like a plug in a leaky dam little Pine Island Glacier holds back part of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet
In recent decades Pine Island Glacier's rapid retreat raised fears that the glacier could collapse freeing the ice sheet it buffers to flow even more rapidly into the southern seas.
Pine Island Glacier's small ice shelf a platform of ice floating on the ocean's surface acts as a plug holding the rest of the ice stream in place on land.
In the past 20 years Pine Island Glacier's grounding line the location where the glacier leaves bedrock
Pine Island Glacier only stretches 45 miles (40 km) across where it meets the ocean
To determine why Pine Island Glacier and its nearby cousin Thwaites Glacier are changing so rapidly The british Antarctic Survey looked to the past.
They studied sediments from Pine Island Bay where the ice shelves stick tongues into the ocean.
and may lead to the complete collapse of the Pine Island Glacier drainage system Hillenbrand said.
As Pine Island Glacier retreats it drops huge icebergs. In 2011 NASA's Operation Icebridge discovered a giant crack crossing the ice shelf.
The Pine Island Glacier seems to generate big bergs on a decade-long cycle scientist say.
Antarctica Iceberg Maker The british team now plans to investigate what's driving the thinning of the glaciers in Pine Island Bay.
In the current study the difference between a diet high in antioxidants and a diet low in antioxidants was linked primarily to the amount of coffee
and trees by 2050 suggests a new study. Higher temperatures will lessen snow cover according to the study which is detailed in the March 31 issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.
and areas currently populated by shrubs may find woody trees taking their place. 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.
Warming Arctic The Arctic climate affects the world: Changes in sea ice affect ocean circulation which in turn affects atmospheric circulation that then impacts the globe said Bruce Forbes a geographer at the Arctic Center at the University of Lapland in Finland who was involved not in the study.
In addition they found more than a 50 percent increase in how much woody greenery such as coniferous trees would populate the Arctic.
and more dark trees the Earth gets warmer just like a dark car gets hotter in a warm parking lot than a light car does told Beck Livescience.
That warmth supports more tree and shrub growth creating a positive feedback cycle to the warming Beck said.
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