New Guinea has the most diverse island plant life in the world according to researchers, who found it had 20 per cent more flora than Madagascar or Borneo. Experts from the University of Zurich examined 700,000 plant specimens from the southwestern Pacific island as part of a study into its ecosystem diversity. Two-thirds of the species … Read more
Fiery red ‘vampire plants’ found around the world feast on other vegetation by wrapping its suckers around the host’s roots Researchers have described the Langsdorffia plant in a new study The plants, deemed parasitic, attach to other vegetation and suck out nutrients It wraps sucker-like roots around the host underground to feed The plants also secrete … Read more
Fiery red ‘vampire plants’ found around the world feast on other vegetation by wrapping its suckers around the host’s roots Researchers have described the Langsdorffia plant in a new study The plants, deemed parasitic, attach to other vegetation and suck out nutrients It wraps sucker like roots around the host underground to feed The plants also … Read more
Sam Faiers looks chic in a white ensemble as she plants a kiss on daughter Rosie during Spanish holiday By Natasha Hooper For Mailonline Published: 18:54 BST, 24 July 2020 | Updated: 20:21 BST, 24 July 2020 She is currently holidaying with her partner Paul and their two kids. And Sam Faiers was every inch … Read more
Why you should put a tampon in your PLANTS: Woman reveals the bizarre trick she uses to stop her plants from dying – and it works every time A Canberra woman has shared a little-known trick to stop her plants from dying The plant owner, from Canberra, decided to put unused tampons in the dirt … Read more
Germany moves forward with $45billion plan to close all its coal-burning power plants by 2038 and eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 The German parliament passed a set of bills eliminating coal-power by 2038 The bills include $45billion to fund the transition to other power sources It’s part of a wider goal of eliminating … Read more
Germany moves forward with $45billion plan to close all its coal-burning power plants by 2038 and eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 The German parliament passed a set of bills eliminating coal-power by 2038 The bills include $45billion to fund the transition to other power sources It’s part of a wider goal of eliminating … Read more
A drone has captured stunning pictures of rows of lavender plants that have bloomed weeks early due to the ‘unusually warm’ weather. The lavender fields near St Keverne in Cornwall usually turn bright purple with flowers in July. But this year the crop came two weeks early, in the middle of June. Roskorwell Farm’s lavender boom … Read more
Toddler is found in a CAGE surrounded by more than 600 animals including a 10-foot boa constrictor during raid on Tennessee mobile home where authorities found 127 marijuana plants and 17 guns Henry County Sheriff Monte Belew identified 46-year-old T.J. Brown, 42-year-old Heather Scarbrough and 82-year-old Charles Brown as the suspects On Thursday, deputies with … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK THE WELL-GARDENED MIND by Sue Stuart-Smith (William Collins £20, 352pp) Back in 1915 Alexander Douglas Gillespie, an officer with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, wrote a letter home from the battlefields of Northern France. He told how ‘a big shell suddenly swooped down from nowhere into the trench, killing five and … Read more