by Admin | Nov 11, 2019 | Climate Change, Information, Sustainability
A long-held scientific assumption has just been turned on its head. For many years, scientists have thought that as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations increase as a result of climate change, plants will reduce their water consumption and leave more fresh water...
by Admin | Jul 5, 2019 | Climate Change, Sustainability
If you remember your high school biology, you’ll recall that plants breathe in carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. Of course, they don’t breathe quite the way humans do. Botanists have known for more than 100 years that plant leaves have pores called stomata, and they...
by Admin | Jun 13, 2015 | Articles, Climate Change
Conventional wisdom has held that despite it’s many downsides, a warming planet would be good for plant growth, at least among plants in northern regions. Recent evidence has proven that wrong, quite wrong in fact, as current projections claim that by 2100 we could...
by Admin | Sep 18, 2013 | Articles, Conservation, Profiles
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is there to protect our wild spaces and endangered animals. This governmental agency has been around since 1871, and it isn’t going away any time soon. The organization is now broken down into several different branches, which...
by Admin | May 9, 2013 | Articles, Information
According to a new study published in BMC Ecology, plants can listen, smell, and see neighboring plants through acoustic signaling. In other words, plants hear vibrations and communicate using them. Study co-author Monica Gagliano says plants can tell whether a plant...
