That's how most plants and animals get to isolated islands --which The americas were at the time.
Many of the flora and fauna that had populated the planet during the Eocene just couldn't survive in the new colder world.
or for the past 300 years just part of the this plant's least-understood geo-cycle
when in fact it's essential for plant growth. The increasing CO2 saturation of the atmosphere has been a boon to earth's flora.
No one has demonstrated ever that CO2 in the minute quantities found in our atmosphere is anything but a good thing.
-Increasing CO2 concentrations leads to plants producing less stomata in the short (geologically speaking) timescale.
With flowering plants now contaminated with pollen from plants w/re-engineered DNA like rapeseed & corn & soy its become a case of malnutrition at the lowest level of the food chain.
#Warming Causes Plants To Release Gases That May Mitigate Global Warmingplants could help cool down the warming world through their own climate change response according to a new study.
Trees and other plants are known to emit volatile organic compounds in response to stress--heck they even make noise
But the role of plant aerosols in this process was understood not well. To investigate this Finnish researchers collected data from forests in 11 locations around Earth.
They measured aerosol concentrations plant gases average temperatures and the height of something called the boundary layer
They found that plant emissions do impact climate warming but only by a tiny degree.
Globally enhanced plant emissions counter about 1 percent of global warming. In forested areas where plants are concentrated the effect is a more meaningful 30 percent however.
That could mean heavily treed areas--like the boreal forests of Canada Siberia and Finland--could warm up more slowly than heavily populated areas in more southerly latitudes.
The exact ramifications of plant emissions are still incredibly complex but the researchers point out that theirs is the first study to quantify it at all.
Decay of plant matter is a major sources of so-called greenhouse gas emissions such as methane or carbon dioxide.
and plant more trees currently than we need. This would give more jobs currently for the planting help to lower C02 in the environment help wildlife and help stop water runoff and erosion.
The lakes can be a type of energy reserve for windmills solar panels any type of solar generating plant.
But the varied plant & insect species that live among the trees cannot be replaced so easily.
I'm always amused by the incredibly high and totally subjective financial values environmentalists place on things like trees plants insects or animals.
But sadly what they fail to appreciate is that throughout earth's history there have been numerous events that have resulted periodically in most of earth's plant/animal/insect species being wiped out.
Good to see the folks over at Popsci are focusing on Cannabis and the many benefits of this wonder plant.
Those plants died weak and thirsty during an epic drought last summer--the hottest year on record.
Earth was damaged by an evasive plant species that kicked a series of global catastrophes called icebox earth
Get rid of coal plants? Where will you get your power? Windmills? Sure lets destroy the ecosystems of ridges
Not to mention the replacement of those trees with other plants that absorb CO2. Not to mention that the CO2 helps plants grow to feed the massive number of humans On earth. tripletiote and brian144
I'm with you guys bring on the Thorium! AGW is a scam. Even so I think we should dump Drill baby drill!
since CO2 is good for plants ALL CO2 levels must be good. Or the canard regarding water vapor vs CO2.
Scientists Turn Inedible Plant Cellulose Into Starchy Snacksomeday it will be be summer again and it will be time for fresh sweet corn.
Plants produce cellulose and starch which are chemically similar for very different purposes. Cellulose forms the cell walls of most plants algae
and even some bacteria and we use it for anything from clothing (cotton is almost all cellulose) to paper to ethanol.
Starch is a plant's energy source and it's ours too in the form of tasty things like potatoes wheat and corn.
They worked with a series of synthetic enzymes to break down the hydrogen bonds in some plant material that would not otherwise be used for food like corn cobs and leaves.
just as Creationists are mocked Darwin had no way of showing that all animals were related much less plants and animals.
and DNA can even be swapped at will between any two species even plants and animals. Darwin would be concerned
and bean leaves similar trichomes on other plants are known to capture ants aphids bees flies
or so poultry processing plants in the U s. Workers man massive assembly lines to scald pluck gut slice
Unsurprisingly work in poultry plants is dirty and dangerous. The job of chicken deboner (who cuts through the shoulder joint to separate the wing from the body) is particularly brutal
Let the plant holocaust live on!!The Japanese are already selling them since 2011: http://www. youtube. com/watch?
He hauled sodium waste from a North Jersey chemical plant to Beachwood just south of Toms River
The 2011 disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant should not deter governments from expanding nuclear power according to Hansen
but we're at such a point in our'advancement'that our diluted pollutants are reaching toxic levels. 1. Nuclear power plants emit dangerous radiation into the air and water during their DAILY operations.
and in our environment from nuclear meltdowns and nuclear power plants was discussed. The total amounts of deaths birth defects miscarriages heart attacks cancers etc. due to nuclear radiation is in the millions upon millions;
By the time one more nuclear plant is built the materials based energy revolution will change the face of energy production foreverchernobyl may have caused almost 1 million deaths according to a recent study.
The newest generations of nuclear power plants are some of the most well design and safest power plants in the world.
Animal and plant mutations are being found everywhere. There is no doubt about it. Man-made nuclear radiation is wreaking havoc on human genetics human health and our environment.
Here's a list of all nuclear power plant accidents: http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Nuclear and radiation accidentsthe*4000 cancer number associated with Chernobyl is the number of cancers--not deaths--attributed to Chernobyl.
The radiation released resulted in an average dose of 1. 4 mrem to the two million people near the plant.
As further comparison you receive 3. 2 mrem from a chest X-ray âÂ#Âmore than twice the average dose of those received near the plant. http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Three mile island accidentdo
Chernobyl and Fukushima were examples of plants built when scientist didn't even know about all of the elements we have now on the periodic table.
Putting plants into use is extensive. Nuclear plants were built with technology research and designed decades ago.
Chernobyl and Fukushima built in the sixties and finished in the seventies used technology invented in the fifties!
The nuclear plants finished recently (within the past decade) were built with technology developed in the seventies and eighties.
and plants to mark based on how well those plants natural characteristics will spread the scent of the mark.
therefore wildcats select those plants which could enhance the olfactory effectiveness of the mark. It's not totally clear how chemically scent marks interact with the volatile organic compounds in the juniper
but it is clear that the cats choose those more than other plants. Cats: they don't just pee anywhere.
New pesticides called neonicotinoids which are implanted directly into plants might be to blame but nothing's definitive the New york times reports.
can we artificially pollinate plants? No bees on Mars just sayin...It is GMO crops watch the documentary on Netflix
It's going great. the problem is bayer's neonicotinoid pesticides they accumulate in the plants
Bees live in symbioses with plants. So they must evolve together with the plants. However plants are selected now
(or modified) by humans and not bees anymore. We don't select new plants how much they benefit the bees.
The bees have no voting rights when the farmer selects his seeds. On the long term this will lead to worsen relation between the bees and the plants.
It might that this is already happening. Lucas K. âÂ#Âoeif the bee disappeared off the face of the earth man would only have four years left to live.
âÂ# âÂ#ÂALBERT Einsteinthere's a long article Colony collapse disorder on wikipedia that is definitely worth reading if you're interested in this subject.
because apparently one's google Ph d means a lot more than a University Ph. dreally we could probably find a way to artificially pollinate plants.
But thats not the point the point is we shouldn't have to artificially pollinate plants we should stop damaging the natural system that does it.
In fact many of the plants where you would expect to see bees in the past will be history
Twelve farmers in Five Points Calif. have received a $5 million state grant to build a plant that turns sugar beets into fuel the Associated press reports.
If the experiment works California will build a larger plant in 2016 that would become the U s.'first commercial sugar beet biorefinery the AP reported.
and see how well the pilot plant fares but the beets have a couple things going for them.
before 550 million years ago fish before 500 million years ago land plants before 475 million years ago insects
#No, Architects, You Can't Plant Trees On top of Skyscrapersyou've seen them. Those artists'renditions of futuristic skyscrapers with trees growing in rooftop gardens or mid-building parks.
Some plants evolved to live in hot and windy climates and have adaptations to deal with this
All sorts of trees and plants live on mountains. They'd do just fine on a tall building too.
If governments and society are not willing to plant more trees horizontally I see the likely hood of making tall buildings and growing them vertically unlikely.
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or B) takes it to a waste to steam plant where it will be burned for fuel to provide a utility service that is sold back to the public.
Coffee also increases the acidity of your stomach killing vital flora and creating a playground for bad bacteria to flourish.
although they could metabolize other alcohols like those found in the leaves of plants. Ten million years ago though a common ancestor of gorillas chimps and humans emerged with an enzyme that could digest alcohol 50 times more efficiently than earlier incarnations.
me that the objective of deducing the connections of all of the neuronal connections is like trying to identify all of the types and placements of trees shrubs and plants in a vast forest.
and make fuel for the future from dirty water. any water. hydrogen can be made from any source of water. even nuclear power plant water. useing high voltage
Hell the rain forest are disappearing as we speak so no plants or algae and you have higher methane and co2.
But in my world I think the trillions of plants and trees in the world had less to feed on
and the plant has since been shuttered. Neighbors had complained about noxious fumes and other issues for a while according to the local news. But investigators didn't get involved until this drone pilot took his pictures.
Of the 9. 6 million cases of food-borne illness reported each year 51 percent are caused by contaminated plants;
Transformers at the plants increase the voltage so it can be moved more efficiently to local substations
Plants would supply offpeak synfuel desalination EV charging and hot water ice making HVAC systems. By replacing expensive deadly and sickening destructive fossil fuels plant the rate of return on the investment to the nation as a whole in a kind of a FDR New deal would pay back at 40%per annum.
A modern version of FDR's depression ending New deal building nuclear plants would solve the US energy needs in 15 years
Many Republican Senators like Alexander and Mccain see the need for 200 new factory produced nuke plants over the next 15 years in the US basically a trivial exercise requiring a tiny
GTL plants like Shell's new Qatar plant using natural gas to make diesel at $35 a barrel
When a horticulturalist wants to increase plant growth he increases CO2 in the greenhouse. Those pushing the global warming theory either paint over the fact that increases in CO2 will increase the growing season as well as increase plant size or they totally ignorant of this fact.
CO2 is a beneficial atmospheric gas that increases plant production. Contrary to James Hansen's hysterical claims that CO2 increases warming feedbacks studies show that the correlation between CO2
Yes CO2 is needed for plant growth. Our rainforests are being cleared out in great numbers. That's reducing the Earth's ability to take in all of the carbon we're putting into the atmosphere.
Meat from two Irish processing plants has been found to contain substantial portions of pig and curiously horse DNA.
and beef are processed at the same plant though nobody seems to have any idea how a significant amount of horsemeat made its way into the ground beef.
and plants they find in the semi desert they live in. Frequently they must be going hungry.
and plant species that call these forests home now and will need room to move as temperatures rise in coming decades.
Major palm oil consumers Asian Agri Cargill Golden Agri-Resources Wilmar along with the Indonesian Chamber of commerce and Industry say they'll work with the government of Indonesia the world's largest palm oil producer to plant new palms
Berner is a pathologist with the U s. Agricultural research service who studies the diseases that afflict plants.
The safety tests included inoculating plants of species related to the Salsola tragus tumbleweed that C. salsolae and U. salsolae target.
The plant researchers wanted to make sure that if released the fungi wouldn't kill native plants.
Those tests were performed in a biosafety level 3 greenhouse a precaution that was meant to protect not the human researchers who aren't susceptible to the diseases studied in the greenhouse but all of the plants outside of it.
Scientists have to shower before leaving the greenhouse. Not every plant species gets a greenhouse test however.
Some species are difficult to find or cultivate. So Berner and his colleagues ran a mathematical model on all of their species that estimates the extent to
and there are no plants native to the U s. that share tumbleweeds'Genus salsola. Now it's a question of waiting
They had been trying to figure out how some plants were able to grow in the barren soil and peak 150 Degree-fahrenheit temperatures at the center of Yellowstone national park.
They discovered that fungi had colonized the plants and essentially lent them extra resilience. When the fungi were removed in the lab the plants failed under the same heat.
Since 2008 Redman has been tweaking fungi blends to work with wheat soybeans rice and corn crops.
In dry places plants grow slower and the gaps between their annual tree rings are shorter.
More than 28 years ago a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl Nuclear power Plant in Soviet-run Ukraine releasing radioactive particles into the atmosphere.
Agronomist Frank Forcella is blasting weeds with a spray of ground-up corncobs walnut shells corn gluten meal and other plant material.
the perpetual moisture warmth and rich soil lead to extravagant growth of hundreds of varieties of tropical grasses plants flowers vines and trees furnishing favorable harbor for the insects;
and vegan and whether you call yeast animals or plants. But synthetic biologist and writer Christina Agapakis a postdoctoral research fellow at University of California Los angeles thinks Real Vegan Cheese could work.
#Pest In Brazil Has evolved Resistance Against GMO Corncrop-munching caterpillars in Brazil are no longer put off by genetically modified plants designed to kill them Reuters reports.
Bt plants are engineered so that they have genes from a soil bacteria called Bacillus thuringiensis. The genes produce crystalline chemicals that kill insect larvae when they eat it.
The first publicly announced case of insects in a field evolving resistance to Bt plants occurred in India in 2009.
The team found that in 2005 only one of the 13 pest species examined could eat Bt plants without dying.
But by 2013 five species could eat Bt plants. The first engineered Bt plant was registered by a U s. company in 1995
Some pests have evolved resistance against those plants however. There are some scientifically proven ways to slow bugs'ability to adapt to GMO toxins.
and non-GMO plants helps. So does planting first-and second-generation Bt crops separately.
This gives the woodrats (Neotoma lepida) a nice niche allowing them to dine on a plant that others avoid.
A new study suggests that the microbes in their gut break down the toxic chemicals in the plants
In one test they found that packrats (as the animals are known also) fed creosote had much higher levels of bacteria thought to be involved in breaking down the plant's secondary chemicals
Animals that were fed creosote stopped eating the plant and lost weight whereas animals given rabbit food (devoid of toxins) seemed to do just fine
These animals apparently developed the ability to break down the plant compared to those just fed rabbit food who couldn't subsequently eat the toxic plant.
All this work with toxic plants poo and packrats has wider implications than you might imagine however.
It may be possible for example to help livestock feed on toxic plants like juniper which is spreading throughout the Southwest
You could presumably give the cattle microbes from others that have become accustomed to eating these plants
since breeding in the lab can cause the animals to lose microbes necessary for digesting certain toxic plant compounds found in the wild.
What's at stake here aren't the genetically modified seeds that farmers buy and plant.
Parent plants are much more valuable than the GMO seeds farmers buy. A farmer who plants a crossbred GMO corn crop could keep the resulting seeds
The sequences of parent plants'genes represent some of the companies'most important intellectual property.
Biologists also introduce genes to make plants pest-and herbicide-resistant; those traits dominate the more than 430 million acres of GMO crops that have already been planted globally.
Humans have been manipulating the genes of crops for millennia by selectively breeding plants with desirable traits.
But the technique does differ dramatically from traditional plant breeding. Here's how it works:
They do this by either using bacteria to deliver the new genetic material or by shooting tiny DNA-coated metal pellets into plant cells with a gene gun.
or a toxin or if it is going to turn another gene off says Peggy G. Lemaux a plant biologist at the University of California Berkeley.
Genes that help wild plants survive might spread whereas those that say boost Vitamin a content might remain at low levels
Today's most common GMO technology RECOMBINANT DNA inserts genes into a plant's cells via bacteria or specialized delivery tools but it involves some trial and error.
This allows for more precise changes to a plant's genome. Scientists at the University of California Berkeley are already working with it to create virus-resistant cassava.
The enzymes used in gene editing don't leave such a fingerprint so future genetically modified plants will be harder to detect with tests.
which people would collaborate vs compete in growing plants since in the limited space only cooperative behavior would allow most plants to thrive.
Now they re harbingers of things to Come in Carlsbad California construction is underway on a billion-dollar desalination plant
#New Air pollution Rules Tie Public health To Major Carbon Cutspower plants nationwide must cut their carbon dioxide pollution by up to 30 percent in less than two decades under the clean power plan released today by the Obama administration.
Carbon pollution from power plants comes packaged with other dangerous pollutants like particulate matter nitrogen oxides
Only when we learned to plant and store crops and to control and domesticate food animals had need we
and harvest its plant life. We must study control herd and improve the breeds of animals
It would make the most sense to plant fast-cycle salad crops first says Jean Hunter a professor at Cornell who studies food-processing and waste-management systems for long-term living away
In recent years it has spread across Asia and Australia devastating plants there that bear the signature yellow supermarket fruit.
All told 7 million banana plants were doomed to wilt and rot. The future looks bleak says Altus Viljoen the South african plant pathologist who organized the conference.
There s no way they ll be able to stop any further spread if they continue to farm.
It infects the roots of banana plants moves upward through the xylem and clogs the flow of sap causing leaves to wilt and the plant to rot.
When I reported on the disease which was and remains incurable it had spread only to a few Asian nations including Taiwan and Indonesia.
On multiple plots in the Mozambique farms plants were sharing water drainage facilities a practice that might allow contaminated water to spread from one plot to another.
The workers who set up those plantations are now back home says Randy Ploetz the Florida-based plant pathologist who first identified Foc-TR4 in the 1980s.
The woody vine Boquila trifoliolata Boquila for short is a climbing plant and has the abilities to mimic the leaves of its supporting trees as detailed by Gianoli and his student Fernando Carrasco-Urra in their paper.
And a single strand of Boquila vine can copy several different leaves as it climbs from plant to plant.
The lettuces inside live in individual plant pillows. NASA plans to send the chamber and the plant pillows to the International Space station on April 14 aboard a Spacex launch.
The growth chamber is made not of iridescent pink tulle although it looks that way here.
and a half in height as the plants inside grow. Astronauts can also push the sides down completely to observe their plants.
The structure comes with red blue and green LEDS for the plants. Those lights make the white walls look pink in this picture.
Russian cosmonauts have grown a number of crops aboard the International Space station using a stiff-sided greenhouse with removable trays.
Conifers naturally excrete the stuff in their resin lending the plants part of their distinctive scent.
The aspiring plant bioengineer worked with a team of scientists to test how not getting enough water altered the quality of barley grains.
and plants in harmful ways and the ecosystem became unbalanced. Or as science puts it we caused a harmful top-down trophic cascade by removing an apex predator the wolf from the food web.
and straw and silage (a feed created from the entire cereal plant not just the grain).
It's how ruminants are supposed to eat judging from the fact that they naturally have forestomachs that can break down fibrous plant matter into nutritious calories
me to the plant s cavernous intake bay to show me what those lamps looked like in a previous life.
They found investors and built a small pilot plant in Berkeley then a larger one in Richmond.
By 2000 the Richmond plant had become a full-blown production facility and was running three shifts.
and logistical problems trying to open a plant there so he began exploring China. The country didn t have the recycling laws Japan did r that Europe was developing ut it did have interested companies in Biddle s vision.
He built a plant in Guangzhou in 2006 after contracting for a steady stream of e-waste.
That same year taking advantage of Europe s new legislation he built a plant in Austria that primarily recycles plastic from e-waste.
In 2010 he built the plant in England which targets mostly automotive plastics. Today MBA processes a million pounds of material a day more than 125000 tons a year.
Curious about why he couldn t get source material for his plant in Richmond Biddle traveled to China himself.
But the vagaries of sourcing material continued to haunt Biddle even after he opened plants in Europe and China.
if the mind could grapple with such numbers t is grappling with eternity hink of each of a thousand seeds bringing forth its plant and then each a thousand.
I have another plant to beg but I write on separate paper as more convenient for you to keep.
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