Category: Plants and Environment

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Observing World Environment Day 2019

Posted on June 6, 2019June 6, 2019 by Aaram A. Kumar

Today, June 5, is World Environment Day. China is this year’s host country and will be the center of World Environment Day activities. The theme ...

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Making a cleaner, greener, environmentally safe sunscreen

Posted on May 30, 2018June 14, 2018 by Contributor

Ingredients in many sunscreens are bleaching coral and harming marine life. www.shutterstock.com Yousong Ding, University of Florida As the temperatures rise and Americans swarm to ...

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Zombie Plants: How Phytoplasma turns plants into the ‘budding dead’

Posted on June 12, 2017March 13, 2019 by Priyanka Mishra

“…Zombie Plants” I was listening to Prof. Saskia Hogenhout speak when a phrase she used took me by surprise. Did I hear that correctly? As ...

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Let the clones run wild: vegetative propagation in our daily life

Posted on March 7, 2017March 13, 2019 by Priyanka Mishra

We all remember how at the end of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, the sinister motive behind producing the clones is revealed. How would ...

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Much sweetness can cause sickness: The science behind plant sugars influencing transmission of malaria by mosquitoes

Posted on August 16, 2016March 13, 2019 by Barsha Tripathy

SUMMARY : As part of their natural diet to meet energy requirements, female Anopheles mosquitoes also consume sugars from plant nectar and fruit sap. Such ...

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Climate Change can damage your kidneys

Posted on May 24, 2016March 12, 2019 by Contributor

Climate change may not just kill polar bears and melt ice caps, it may damage your kidneys as well, according to a study published in ...

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