In mid-February, Living Carbon planted five thousand seedlings of genetically modified poplars in Georgia. Environmentalists and reporters are sounding the alarm as this is an unprecedented case in which a private company has received permission to grow such plants, and in record time. In addition, the company does not have scientific proof ...
This young man seems to have taken the term "urban jungle" too literally. A New Yorker brought apparently oversized planters of tropical trees to the subway. While he was trying to move this exotic thing into the carriage, trains along the entire line had to be delayed. On the evening of Sunday, April 7th...
The first blizzard of the season knocked down more than 100 trees in Manhattan, injured a police officer and an ambulance worker, crushed cars and blocked streets, paralyzing traffic on Thursday. It started snowing on Thursday afternoon, and by evening about 150 were recorded in New York ...
In the state of California, in the city of Pleasant Hill, a homeowner had to deal with a 350-year-old oak tree, a branch of which fell on his street, damaging 7 cars, writes ABC7. Audra Cudd said she heard a tree crack and then a fall. She says that she immediately understood what had happened. ...
In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, unusual damage was discovered - the foliage of many trees turned brown. Will plants and trees survive? The good news is that trees and shrubs can bloom like they did before. Why do leaves change color? The hurricane tore everything ...
The Brooklyn Public Library, as part of the city's MillionTreesNYC tree planting program, has opened registration for a tree sapling for New Yorkers. The seedlings will be distributed on October 7 from 12:00 to 14:00 at the library at Gerritsen Beach Branch, 2808 Gerritsen Ave, Brooklyn. IN…
New York State's Suffolk County police are tricky and even resort to landscaping to counter the US's most violent gang, MS-13. The fact is that MS-13 recruiters often use wooded areas in Huntington to recruit teenagers into the gang, writes ...
Less than a month left before Christmas and New Year. Sales of the main attribute of the upcoming holidays - Christmas trees - have officially started in the USA. According to the National Christmas Tree Association (surprisingly, there is such an organization), every year in America they sell from 25 to 30 million ...
Scientists led by Thomas Crowther of Yale University calculated the total number of trees based on satellite imagery and research in selected areas. According to this data, there are 3,04 trillion trees in total on Earth. Most trees grow in the tropics, but the highest density ...
New York professor Sam Van Aken has created a unique hybrid tree on which forty types of fruit grow at once. He called the technique of creating such trees “sculpture through grafting.” Throughout the winter, the professor grafts branches from different fruit trees into one. The real magic begins in spring when…