To Pull a Thorn From the Side of the Planet
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Environmentally friendly flowers are a hard sell. After all, most people donât eat them.
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Scientists are planning to take the pulse of the planet -- and more -- in an effort to improve weather forecasts, predict energy needs months in advance, anticipate disease outbreaks and even tell fishermen where the catch will be abundant.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb.
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A VITAL lifeline is being thrown to woodland creatures in the region threatened with extinction.  Some butterflies and moths are in severe decline, but the Forestry Commission is taking action to improve their plight.
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Weeds sometimes hide fertile fields of growth.
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The planet isn't the only thing heating up because of climate change. Some renewable-energy stocks have been pretty hot, too.
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I saw it when I popped the lid of the supers - I couldn't have missed it, being nearly the size of my palm.  A common orb spider, hiding in these old unused honey supers.  It and about eighty more of its kind have built webs all around my equipment.  I spent the most of a week fighting them.  Now I see that there are some important lessons to be learned.
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Many plants can naturally clean chemically contaminated soil and groundwater. Researchers are now helping them do a quicker, better job of rehabbing polluted sites.
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Avant-green market traders are going beyond mere carbon offsets. They've started buying up forests and rivers that keep the planet clean and diverse, and then selling shares in the natural services provided by these resources. Will it work?
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California's ancient Redwood trees face a growing  problem of tree poaching, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.  Tree poachers steal downed Redwoods, which they cut into pieces to be sold on the black market.
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Investors are searching for a holy grail that symbolizes wealth in both profits and whatâs good for the environment.
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By Katherine Cromer Brock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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A group of European-led    astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another    star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar    system.
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A secret long held by plants has been revealed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers.
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AT A TIME when children and young people in inner cities are increasingly finding the natural world an alien environment, a small south London charity is using horticulture to help troubled teenagers re-engage with society.
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Astronomers describe a planet orbiting a star near the end of its life - a vision, perhaps, of Earth's future.
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By Constance Loizos, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.