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Pornhub is planting a tree for every 100 videos you watch
Whenever there’s a national holiday, like Valentine’s Day or the Jewish harvest celebration Sukkot, it’s a safe bet that porn streaming giant Pornhub will be on hand with a vaguely holiday-themed promotional campaign, like unlimited free mobile access or clips of busty young Semitic women doing unspeakable things with a lulav and etrog.
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Tree on the stone shows that nature always finds a way
Taken at Ta Prohm Temple, Cambodia. It was built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries and originally called Rajavihara.
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USDA expanding use of wasp to fight citrus greening in California
The fight against a disease threatening California citrus got a boost Tuesday when the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it would expand efforts to breed and release a tiny parasitic wasp, a natural enemy of a pest that spreads the incurable ailment.
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The Man Who Single Handedly Converted A Washed Out Land Into A 1,360 Acre Forest
Almost three decades ago, a teenager, after noticing the deaths of a large number of reptiles due to a lack of a tree cover, started planting Bamboo in an area that had been washed away by floods. Today, that same land hosts 1,360 acres of Jungle called Molai Forest, named after Jadav “Molai” Payeng, the man who made this possible single handedly!
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This ugly plant is truly one of a kind
There's nothing else on the planet like the plant called Welwitschia mirabilis. The ancient tree looks like little more than a pile of leaves, and it's only found in the extremely arid desert...
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This Is Why You Don't Hide Under A Tree During A Lightning Storm
Via the US National Weather Service comes this staggering footage of a lightning bolt making matchsticks of a tree in Upstate New York.
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Infographic: How Forests Can Better Combat Climate and Carbon Emissions
United States forests offset nearly 13% of our total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions--and they could do even more. This infographic explains how we can get more out of our forests.
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Brazil's recent fight against deforestation has been a huge success
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has dropped 70 percent since 2005. ll eyes are on Brazil right now because of the World Cup. But there's another Brazil story that deserves just as much attention — over the last decade, the country has made surprising strides in slowing the destruction of its rainforests.
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Unesco to rule on Australian sites
An Australian plan to chop down 74,000 hectares of protected Tasmanian forest for timber will be discussed at a UN cultural organisation meeting which begins on Sunday in Qatar.
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Forests 'fundamental' to well-being
A senior UN official has described the world's forests as "fundamental" to human well-being and survival.
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UN rejects Australia's 'feeble' bid to strip Tasmanian forest's heritage status
Unesco has unanimously rejected a “feeble” Australian government bid to reopen 74,000 hectares of Tasmania’s world heritage area to logging. At its annual meeting in Doha, the Unesco World Heritage Committee said the Australian government had failed to provide compelling evidence that areas added to the site only last year were detracting from the overall value of the area.
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Tree Serial Killer
this nasty piece of bug business is taking out ash trees across the continent.
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Bark beetle video series says there's hope amid the carnage
The mountain pine beetle is perhaps the most infamous creepy-crawly in the Western United States. No larger than a grain of rice, the bug drills into trees and infects them with a blue fungus that makes them die of thirst. They’ve bored and left for dead millions of trees and affected 30 million acres in the Western U.S. and Canada since the late 1990s. But there’s no need to panic...
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A crisis in our trees
This disease infiltrates the living portion of the tree called the cambium – the area where food, water and nutrients flow in the tree. This disease is like heart disease in humans – it plugs up the system – literally cutting off the supply of vital nutrients.
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Carbs boost tree drought resilience
Higher levels of compounds called non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs) boost tropical trees' chances of surviving droughts, a study has suggested.
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Indonesia Is Killing the Planet for Palm Oil
Indonesia is being deforested faster than any other country in the world, and it has everything to do with one product: palm oil. According to a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change, deforestation in the Southeast Asian archipelago is nearly double the rate in the Amazon. Indonesia is said to have lost 840,000 hectares (3,250 square miles) of forest in 2012 while Brazil — which has four times Indonesia’s rainforest — lost a still-massive 460,000 hectares.
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Amazon rainforest grew after climate change 2,000 years ago: study
Swathes of the Amazon may have been grassland until a natural shift to a wetter climate about 2,000 years ago let the rainforests form, according to a study that challenges common belief that the world’s biggest tropical forest is far older.
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Forest Man
Since the 1970's Majuli islander Jadav Payeng has been planting trees in order to save his island. To date he has single handedly planted a forest larger than Central Park NYC. His forest has transformed what was once a barren wasteland, into a lush oasis.
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Fires in Canadian NW Territories in Line with 'Unprecedented' Burn
The wildfires searing the Northwest Territories could be a harbinger of things to come in a warming world.
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The Tree of 40 Fruit Is Exactly as Awesome as It Sounds
Artist Sam Van Aken discusses his thought-provoking project and its place at the intersection of farming, sculpture, and preservation
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