World Billion tree planting Mission, India Ranked 9th with 96 mi

UNEP launched a mission to plant billion tree in 2006, latest report says that four billion plant has been planted till date. In this mission of planting tree India stood 9th with 96 million trees."India has been ranked ninth in the tree planting roll of honour in a campaign...

20 Yr Old Women Impaled By Tree Limb

While driving along the Lochsa River with her husband, Daniel Childers, Michelle Childers was impaled by a tree limb. They were taking a recreational drive when a spruce tree crashed into the passenger side window...

Banana Trees, Growing in Tropical Wales UK.

  Spotted today was a nice front garden, where unexpectadly a couple of banana trees were thriving in the sunshine of Cardiff. Needless to say, Wales is a country in the northerne hemisfere where usually...

Rains cause floods in Orissa; death toll rises to 33

" BHUBANESWAR: Five more persons died on Sunday in the torrential rains in Orissa taking the toll to 33, even as heavy downpour due to a fresh low pressure over the sea triggered floods in many parts of the state. While two persons were swept away in Rana river in...

The Evolution of Plant Minds

     I was listening this past weekend to an NPR story about the history of chewing gum (see http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106439600&ft=1&f=1032). ...

Pilgrims flock to tree 'showing image of Virgin Mary' in Limerick

" It has been 14 years since her last major apparition in Ireland but the Virgin Mary is back and this time in the lowly form of a tree stump in Limerick. To the dismay of local Catholic church leaders, the...

Celebrate Arbor Day 2009: what is it exactly?

Today in the United States, it's Arbor Day! It's a day to celebrate all things 'tree' related, it's a day to plant trees, and to give thanks for the amazing varieties of trees that habitate our planet and clean...

Disney's "Earth" Movie has already sold 500,000 tickets

Disney's new film 'Earth' opens April 22nd, Earth Day, and already it has sold over 500,000 advanced tickets. Disney has pledged to plant a tree for every ticket sold during the film's opening week, so this...

Give the Chews without the Sticky Mess

"The secret, unlike ordinary gums Chicza is made from the sap of chicozapote tree which is found mainly in Mexican forests. That alone guarantees consumers that it’s environmental-friendly. It is also the only gum that when dried, it will be non-adhesive and after six...

Botanists discover new species of tree and call it 'No Parking'

Botanists have found a new species of tree growing by the side of a road in North Devon, and have named it after a 'No Parking sign' that was nailed to it; it is officially called the 'No Parking Whitebeam'. ...

90-yr-old's message by tree marriage

"The city could take a leaf out of this parting gift by a 90-year-old. She is marrying off a banyan and a peepal tree that she planted four years ago, hoping that the union lasts happily ever after. The unique wedlock will take place on Monday on a playground in...

Trees in Western States and Canada dying faster than the rest

The forests in the western United States and Canada are dying at an alarming rate, according to a study published today, and this is a trend that they are linking directly to global warming. The study says that...

Merry Christmas: Plant a Tree This Christmas

Why This Project Why has the Conservancy begun the Plant a Billion Trees campaign? Because our forests are on the brink. Coastal development, urban expansion, agriculture, exotic plantations, ranching and...

Upload a picture of your Christmas tree - help save the forest

Upload a picture of your Christmas tree to the site 'World Christmas Tree 2008' and you can help save a piece of the planet yourself so that we will have more Christmas trees for years to come. " We display ads on...

The Last Christmas.

By, Uwe Paschen.  Christmas Eve in Niger.  I do have some good memories of what Christmas was when I was a Child and even as our Children where still Young, yet the last time we managed to have our whole family...

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