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NewsChannel 9 WSYR - Syracuse,NY,USA
Ithaca (AP) - This winter’s weird weather pattern may mean a less colorful spring.
Horticulture experts at Cornell University say the sudden arrival of severe winter cold after an unusually warm December and early January will likely have stressed many plants.
Ynetnews - Israel
Some 125 million flowers and ornaments, weighing more than 5,000 tons, will be flown to Europe ahead of Valentine’s Day, the Flower Growers Association reported.
Environmental Leader - Fort Collins,CO,USA
The National Football League is planting 3,000 mangroves and other trees native to Florida in an effort to tackle the the Super Bowl’s greenhouse gas emissions, Reuters reports.
Hunts Post - Huntingdon,England,UK
GLOBAL warming may be bad news for the environment, but it is making life more interesting for lepidopterists.
This has been confirmed by research by scientists at the doomed Monks Wood research centre in north Huntingdonshire.
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
SCIENTISTS in Britain said today they had figured out how insects fly, bringing bee-sized surveillance aircraft a step closer to reality.
Experts from the University of Bath in southwest England have studied insect flight in the hope of discovering groundbreaking ways to build tiny aircraft that could be attached with cameras and sensors.Scientists hope the discovery will help construct minature aircraft that could be used for reconnaissance in areas such as traffic monitoring, border surveillance, fire and rescue operations, and even spying.
Lancashire Evening Post - Preston,England,UK
The RSPB is encouraging people to bird watch this weekend.
And the society is now urging people across the county to help them monitor numbers.This weekend is the charity’s Big Garden Birdwatch, when it hopes half a million people in the UK will spend an hour counting the birds in their gardens to help build a detailed picture of garden bird life.
The Reporter - Fond du Lac,WI,USA
Based on the latest comprehensive weather station data, the National Arbor Day Foundation released a new hardiness zone map that reflects an apparent warming trend since 1990 when the last USDA hardiness zone map was published.
Corvallis Gazette Times - Corvallis,OR,USA
Students in five Benton County schools are helping the environment by raising rare and endangered plants, and will transplant those from greenhouses to local wetlands and prairies this spring.
Philomath High School, Crescent Valley High School, Cheldelin Middle School, Lincoln K-8 School and Kings Valley Charter School are participating in the program, which is run by the Institute for Applied Ecology, a Corvallis nonprofit.
Science Daily - USA
GHENT, Belgium, Jan. 17 (UPI) — Scientist from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology in Belgium say plants might provide an inexpensive way to produce medicines.
The researchers say they’ve succeeded in using plant seeds to produce proteins that have a very strong resemblance to antibodies. They have also demonstrated such antibody variants are just as active as the whole antibodies that occur naturally in humans.
The Daily Post - Rotorua,New Zealand
Dylan Whyte’s old tricycle may be too small for him to ride but it makes a perfect prop for his favourite pastime - gardening.
In the corner of his father Colin Whyte’s garden, the 4-year-old Rotorua boy has filled the tray on his old trike with pots of succulent plants and has dinosaurs peeking through leaves on the seat.
