Giant palm tree puzzles botanists
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Botanists discover a species of giant self-destructing palm in Madagascar, quite unlike an ordinary palm tree.
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The Los Angeles City Council has declared the palm tree the enemy of the urban forest and wishes that most would disappear.
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In a study with implications for how North American trees might respond to a changing climate, molecular information collected by Duke University researchers refutes a widely accepted theory that many of the continent's tree species migrated rapidly from the deep South as glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age.
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The iconic tree that gave Brazil its name and the world's violinists their bows got extra protection Thursday to prevent it from sliding toward extinction.
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By Adrian Mather  A TROPICAL plant expert from the Royal Botanic Garden is helping Peruvian farmers in the Andes replant their native forests.
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Rising demand for fuel derived from plants has brought about the clearing of huge tracts of Southeast Asian rainforest for palm plantations.
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A self-destructing palm tree that flowers once every 100 years and then dies has been discovered on the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, botanists said Thursday.
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Conservationists concerned about the extinction of plants and animals may be overlooking the danger to thousands of other species that depend on the threatened ones.
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Jakarta - A leading Indonesian scientist on Saturday challenged the widely publicised theory that fossilised bones found on the eastern island of Flores were from a previously unknown species of human.
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An ambitious drug-research project in Madagascar aims to tap the botanical knowledge of traditional healers while helping to protect the country's rain forests.
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Dying palm trees might soon be replaced by oak trees across the Los Angeles area.
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"You can't cut back a genuine palm"  " It's outlived two world wars and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now Vienna's imperial "Sisi Palm" - " a tree named for the late Empress Elisabeth - " faces the ax. via The Toronto Star
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Science & environment: Scientists hope evidence will save other areas of land given over to timber and oil-palm plantations.
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A redwood tree discovered in a remote California forest has turned out to be the world's tallest tree, edging out one nearby that had been the previous titleholder, a botanist said on Friday.
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Saguaro National Park managers are trying to eliminate exotic plants that are threatening to crowd out native vegetation in the Sonoran Desert.
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A giant sequoia believed to be the second-largest tree in the world may not live much longer after suffering damage from heavy snow and strong wind, according to officials at Sequoia National Park.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.