31/08/2021
Vendée. Une agave de 9 m de haut vient de pousser dans son jardin
Une habitante de Notre-Dame-de-Monts en Vendée, vient de faire une découverte étonnante dans son jardin : son agave ramenée de Tunisie il y a 25 ans culmine à plus de 9 m.
25/06/2021
Robin Wall Kimmerer: ‘Mosses are a model of how we might live’
The world’s favourite moss scientist reveals the secrets of these primitive plants – and what they might teach us about surviving the climate crisis
24/06/2021
About – Green Advocates International, Inc.
Green Advocates International (G*I) is a Liberian-based non-profit, public interest law, environmental and human rights organization working to advance a wide range of issues through legal aid, consultation and support for the victims of environmental and human rights violations; the development of....
08/06/2021
Dealing with snakebites
Edited by Leon Louw Snakebites are a serious risk and something the mining team in an open pit should constantly be aware of. With at least 600 000 people worldwide killed or permanently disabled from snakebites each year, snakebites are one of the biggest public health crises. For projects in Afric...
08/05/2021
Voici la carte la plus précise jamais réalisée des voisins du Système solaire
Combien il y a-t-il d’étoiles dans le ciel ? C’est l’une des premières questions que l’on se pose en levant les yeux la nuit. Les astronomes ont commencé à les compter dès l’Antiquité. Mais la...
23/01/2020
Hummm! Old the trees are mothers of all living on earth. they should be kept until they die on their own. dying is a natural process. If people want to keep them they need to be safe around them. This city should put barriers or shine to prevent people from being exposed to them. In my opinion they should be kept as they are until they die of their own death...
Aging San Francisco Ficus Trees Causing Standoff Between City, Residents
Dozens of aging Ficus trees in San Francisco are posing a public safety risk, the city says. Residents are fighting to keep the streets green, but trying to keep the dying trees might actually prevent the city from getting new ones planted.
24/03/2019
What's the Smartest Plant?
Compared to even the dumbest human being, your average tulip is a moron. But you’d have to be dumber than a tulip to deny that something—maybe not intelligence in its dictionary definition, but some guiding, autonomic power—is at work among the members of the plant kingdom. And if we grant pla...
24/08/2018
C'est maintenant que l'on dit ça?
There's No Such Thing as Safe Alcohol Consumption, Huge New Study Finds
You don’t have to go far to find people, including doctors and researchers, who will argue that a little bit of alcohol can actually help you live a longer, healthier life. But an enormous new study published Thursday in the Lancet seems poised to rip that idea to shreds. Its findings not only rea...
13/08/2018
The world's most dangerous venomous animals are all in Australia
Some of the world’s deadliest animals have venom that's thousands of times more toxic than cyanide and can kill a human in minutes. Brown snakes, funnel web spiders, and the blue-ringed octopuses are among the animals that you do not want to mess with.