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Nature's best-kept secrets: the most incredible plant finds of recent times
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 3 days agoScientists continue to unearth new botanical discoveries regularly, with hundreds of new plant...
It's peak tick season in Arizona. Here's where you're most likely to find them
The Arizona Republic· 5 days agoSummer is peak tick season in Arizona. Lyme disease is more prevalent in the eastern United States,...
Rare corpse flower that stinks of rotting flesh blooms at Kew Gardens
New Scientist· 4 days agoThe corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum), also called the titan arum, is so named because its...
Axing IHT relief for farms will ‘drive a coach and horses’ through rural communities, says Steve...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAxing the inheritance tax exemption for farmland will “drive a coach and horses” through protections...
Garden Notes: Your garden can aspire to rise - The Martha's Vineyard Times
The Martha's Vineyard Times· 3 days agoAs we enter summer, Ron Rappaport’s death tears a large hole in the fabric of Island life. Ron was...
Tiger mosquitos, Asian hornets and bed bugs: What climate change means for Europe’s ‘pest...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoPests we’re likely to see more of are the ones that are best adapted to humans and our behavior—and...
Rising seas endanger Long Island marsh bird habitats
Newsday· 2 days agoThe sparrows are endemic to the marshes on the East Coast — they exist nowhere else in the world. As seas rise, the salt marshes, already just fragments...
Opinion | How, in China, chillis were the poor man’s salt before becoming prized
South China Morning Post· 3 days agoTo be sure, I still like the piquant kick that chilli peppers give to certain foods. It is the...
What I Learned Chewing the Stimulant Khat Across Three Countries
Thrillist Food & Drink· 5 days agoThe region I’m in, though — the Old City of Sana’a — is an epicenter of chewing culture. The Old...
Remote Island Paradise Threatened by Shipping Terminal
Scientific American· 2 days agoIn 1667 a Swedish sailor reported that on his travels in the Far East he’d landed on the island of...