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acaena exigua

acaena exigua

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12-22-2016

Acaena exigua

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Recent plant News

Colombia has declared a national emergency after a destructive fungus was found in the soil that could ultimately wipe out most large banana farms, leading to major shortages.

08-16-2019 Plants

The world’s most popular banana is now at risk of disappearing

Colombia has declared a national emergency after a destructive fungus...

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Researchers from the University of Bristol have found that taking advantage of a plant’s circadian rhythm could help reduce the amount of herbicide needed for spraying crops.

08-16-2019 Plants

A plant’s biological clock could set the time for crop spraying

Like humans, plants run on an internal clock that helps...

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Researchers at the University of York have discovered that climate change is disrupting local plant diversity.

08-15-2019 Plants

Local plant diversity has been disrupted by climate change, research shows

Researchers at the University of York have discovered that climate...

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Scientists have long speculated that trees and plants will eventually reach a breaking point where they can no longer remove CO2 from the air.

08-12-2019 Environment

How much longer will trees continue to absorb carbon dioxide?

Trees play an important role in keeping the air clean...

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New research shows how large-scale tree death, mainly caused by fires, harvesting, windstorms, and insect outbreaks, has impacted the world’s carbon stocks.

08-12-2019 Environment

Large-scale tree death has major impact on carbon storage

New research from the Institute for Forest Research (BIFoR) at...

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Bioenergy projects alone won't rein in climate change, according to a new special report from the United Nations.

08-11-2019 Lifestyle

UN: Bioenergy projects won’t solve climate change

As record heat waves and ice melt continue around the...

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The fossil forest, located near Xinhang in China's Anhui province, is the earliest example of a forest in Asia ever found.

08-09-2019 Science

The oldest fossil forest has been discovered in Asia

A team of researchers from China’s Peking University and Linyi...

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The planet stands to lose one million species in the so-called 6th mass extinction. But if we think and act big, humanity has the tools to avert catastrophe.

08-09-2019 Environment

The extinction crisis looks apocalyptic — but there are solutions

This spring, a UN study put a startling number to...

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A new study may completely change how some parts of the fossil record are interpreted, particularly a group of early terrestrial plants.

08-08-2019 Plants

New research sheds light on early plant-fungal relationships

A new study from the Field Museum may completely change...

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A new study from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology suggests that the role of seaweed in climate change mitigation has been underestimated.

08-05-2019 Environment

Seaweed plays a bigger role in storing carbon than previously realized

A new study from the King Abdullah University of Science...

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Paleontologists uncovered fossil plants in eastern Canada that have produced the first quantifiable evidence of the region's climate during the Cretaceous period.

08-05-2019 Science

Plant fossils reveal temperatures in North America during the Cretaceous Period

A team of paleontologists led by McGill University uncovered fossil...

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