The fruit of passion

Non nativeI was walking along yesterday in Arlington Virginia on a cold crisp winter day and came upon a trellis hosting an unusual green fruit. My daughter identified it as once, “It’s passion fruit,” she...

10 Poisonous Foods We Love to Eat

10 Poisonous Foods We Love to Eat Everyday we chow down on Food Produced from Plants that carry Deadly Poisons.Most of the time we do not need to be concerned with this as the mass production of Fruit and Vegetables ensures that we are usually Safe.But from time to...

End of the season for jack-in-the-pulpit

It was a marvelous year for jack-in-the-pulpit plants about which I wrote earlier in the Native American context. The plants grow in different sizes and there is a male and female plant denoted by coloration. " ...

Violets on a spring day

Walking in the woods on a warm spring day, I noticed the violets are in bloom everywhere I turn. At Easter time of year, my grandmother’s violets bloomed in her flower pot in the window of the dining room. They...

Killer Petunias and Murderous Potatoes Revealed

Potatoes are scary? Well at least to insects and they will eat the odd corpse. Next time I kill fly's and creepy crawlies in my house I will spread their remains over my potato patch. It's interesting how some...

India Invests In A Cleaner Ganges

India is planning on investing around $3 billion in cleaning the river Ganges, which flows through northern India and Bangladesh. Currently, around 50 percent of Delhi's raw sewage flows straigt into the Ganges. ...

Greek Dope?

I've seen in my travels in the U.S.A. that some states sow wildflower seeds in the median strips along major highways. I believe it is a wonderful idea as it beautifies the highway and visually announces that...

Australia gets the hump, overrun by thousands of camels!

Gud day, its not the dingo's nor the roos that are causing mayhem down near the billy bongs, but damn ugly beasts that spit and chew on the cud. Its the same old problem of introducing a species, that just...

Tiny seahorse, world's longest insect among top new species

"Tiny seahorse, world's longest insect among top new species" Top 10 species were discovered in 2008: including an Indonesian seahorse, an insect that has a length of 14 in & a look alike a stick & a caffeine-free plant from Cameroon that is rare.More details: You...

President: "Earth has ‘right to life’"

Bolivian President promotes Earth’s ‘right to life’.  Mr. Evo Morales, the first indigenous president in Bolivia's history, spoke whole-heartedly to the UN General Assembly to encourage people to put the...

Agricultural agents wage war on bugs, plants and disease

A mother from Ecuador who came to visit her pregnant daughter living in Newark was in for a rude shock when the comfort food she brought all the way from Ecuador for her daughter was confiscated by custom agents at the Newark Liberty International Airport."All Alba Lugardo...

Healthy tobacco on the horizon

Opinio I am surprised that the funding for this research did not come from the tobacco industry.  I guess the next step is to teach lab mice to smoke.  " Scientists grow diabetes drug in tobacco plants Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:37pm EDT     var csvSymbolIds...

Bio-photons Detect Food Quality and Health of the Body

Living cells emit a weak glow in the form of UV light. This is evidence of photon radiation and suggests that the presence of bio-photons may play a role in cell regulation. The process was first suggested in the...

As more snow falls on the UK, harmful salt usage goes up

Snow has fallen on Britain, causing school closures and transit chaos once again, and the nation is scrambling to salt their roads and walkways to keep it clear of snow and ice. More heavy snow may be on the way and...

Cold weather hits Thailand; fish die, monkeys suffer

An unusual cold snap has hit northeastern Thailand, killing fish, and causing the monkey population to suffer as they are not used to such cold weather conditions. Plants have died prematurely due to the cold as in some areas the temperature has dropped to only seven degrees...

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