Summary Box: Cicada Carcasses Help Soil
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WHEN CICADAS DIE: Decaying cicada carcasses provide a massive boost in nutrients to forest soil and stimulate seed and nitrogen production in a plant important to the forest ecosystem, researchers reported.
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Their decaying carcasses gave a super-size boost in nutrients to forest soil and stimulated seed and nitrogen production in a plant important to the forest ecosystem, researchers reported in Friday&#39;s issue of the journal Science.
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By Andre Briscoe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 24--Gardening may soon be on the rise in Pacific Grove, if a new environmental group has its way.
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By Bonhotal, Jean; Harrison, Ellen; Schwarz, Mary  Composting appears to work well for managing road-killed deer, however, questions remain about the hygienic quality of the process and product as well as concerns about worker health.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 2--ROCKY FORD -- Sufficient supply and demand exists for a "Super Ditch" designed to give Arkansas Valley farmers more clout with cities in future water deals.
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By Denis Cuff, MEDIANEWS  When Contra Costa County crews cleared silt from the Walnut Creek channel 11 years ago, environmentalists accused them of scraping away soil and plants where birds and animals were living.
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Waste center hopes to get rid of debris where water collects and mosquitoes tend to breed. By Diana Lamirand. Recycling junk tires may take a bite out of the local mosquito population.
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Locusts are commonly associated with plagues, food shortages, and death. But they are also inspiring what may be the next wave in lifesaving collision-avoidance systems.
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By Booker T Leigh  Organic matter does so many wonderful things for a garden and flower bed.  It improves the soil structure, encourages root development, helps the soil drain better and improves the uptake of water and nutrients.
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SAN ANTONIO, Angola -- As Antonio Cambanda dug into the dry, red dirt before him, he had the look of an unusually intense and wary gardener. He clipped weeds, softened the soil with water, and then, with a short-handled shovel, delicately scraped.
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Tiny channels in the Arctic ice support creatures that play a crucial role in climate-affected ecosystems.
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DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. - It was a one-in-a-million find. Literally. Most of the 17-year cicadas that have emerged in recent weeks in parts of the Midwest have red eyes. But a 6-year-old boy in this Chicago suburb found a rare blue-eyed one in his backyard Friday.
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U.S. scientists have determined a link between climate change and the origins of maize and squash cultivation in Mexico.
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By Walter itschey  There have been lots of copperhead snakes on Country Club Drive in Danville this summer. Are they coming out to sun on the pavement? No, their habitat is being destroyed by the cutting of trees to build condominiums.
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SIDIKALANG, Indonesia  - For Nusamba Wurintara, the most prized arabica coffee beans on his plantation are not those growing on bushes but the ones he finds among the undergrowth, wedged in the excrement of wild palm civets.
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By Motavalli, Jim  If soils do indeed achieve the higher profile they so desperately need, John L. Havlin will be one of the people to thank.
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EASY   FEED seedlings and young plants which have been in the same compost for months with half-strength liquid fertiliser.   PINCH out the growing tips on fuchsias, marguerites and pelargoniums to help them bush out.