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At California’s McCormick and Baxter Superfund site, a pilot study used hybrid poplars to treat polluted groundwater; runoff from the planted system held 99% less contaminationPoplar trees are playing a key role in detoxifying polluted groundwater at a previous industrial site. Through this innovative pilot projec...- Science says trees can send chemical warnings and SOS signals through the air, what plants do when danger strikesThe popular idea of trees sending messages to one another through a forest is fascinating, but scientists caution against oversimplifying t...
- Why are some mountain trees moving downhill as the planet warms? Scientists may have an answerMountain trees are migrating uphill and downhill due to climate change. Their water transport efficiency and drought resistance determine t...
- Since 1978, China has planted 66 billion trees to fight the desert; scientists just found they are outpacing natural forests by 66%China's massive tree-planting initiative, aimed at combating desertification, has yielded surprising results. New research indicates these ...
- Sydney police fired at a suicidal man after a three-hour standoff in a caravan park, here’s whyA 52-year-old man is critically injured after police shot him at Poplar Tourist Park in Elderslie. The incident followed a three-hour siege...
- Lorenzo searches for the meaning of lifeFollowing a road accident and subsequent insurance payout, the protagonist drives his three-year-old Renault from Sistiana to Monfalcone. H...
- Study finds some plants can worsen air pollution and lead to high temperaturesA study has shown that as the planet warms, plants like oaks and poplars will emit more isoprene, a compound that contributes to air pollut...
- Call the Midwife Season 12: See release schedule, storyline and moreAll eight episodes and the Christmas special will land on Netflix in the US this September. The British series, Call the Midwife, has alrea...
- In a first, US startup plants carbon-guzzler GM treesLiving Carbon, a San Francisco-based biotechnology company that produced the poplars, intends for its trees to be a large-scale solution to...
- Rooney Mara to essay the role of Audrey Hepburn for an Apple Studios movieWhile Luca Guadagnino will direct the untitled movie, Michael Mitnick is working on the script.
- Goldman Sachs upgrades United Spirits to 'buy'The foreign investment bank said United Spirits can stem the market share loss to Pernod in the core India made foreign liquor (IMFL) categ...
- Punjab government gives nod to integrated agro-forestry programme to boost diversificationIn a meeting with officials of Horticulture Department, Singh asked the additional chief secretary (Horticulture) Himmat Singh to bring a f...
- Nitish Kumar seeks ban on 15 year-old diesel vehicles in BiharChief Minister Nitish Kumar has directed concerned officials for banning 15-year-old diesel vehicles in the state capital among other measu...
- World Environment Day: ITBP to plant 10 lakh trees this yearThe mountain force has also decided to entrust its each jawan and officer to be the guardian of the sapling that they plant.
- World Environment Day: ITBP to plant 10 lakh trees this yearThe Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force on Friday decided to undertake an ambitious project of planting 10 lakh saplings across the cou...
- This summer, camp in the high altitudes of LadakhA truly surreal and beautiful place, Ladakh's culture is immersed in Tibetan Buddhism, lofty monasteries and gorgeous high altitude lakes.
- Adynatons at risk? Not till pigs fly!How long before hell freezes over or rivers run dry, some might ask, now that climate change is also a reality?
- New tool to predict impact of climate changeScientists have combined genetic analyses with new modelling approaches to help identify how well balsam trees are adapted to handle climat...
- Custom Alfa Romeo electric guitar joins ranksEach Alfa Romeo guitar takes the UK company eight months to build and will cost £4000 (approx. Rs 4 lakh).
- How farmers in Haryana & Punjab are earning Rs 8-10 lakh per acre in agroforestryLow input cost, any-time harvest and rising prices prompt farmers in the wheat-paddy belt to look at poplar and eucalyptus as serious cash ...
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