ic Wales - United Kingdom

WHEN Howard England first visited Dyffryn Gardens as a 10-year-old boy little did he think that one day he would be in charge of the magnificent grounds.

Howard’s way with gardens

Salon - USA

This year, Al Gore, the Man Who Was Almost President, received a stunning vindication from the Nobel Committee for his Paul Revere campaign about global warming. “The Earth has a fever, and the fever is rising,”

The year in the environment

Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom

A conservation charity is hoping to recycle 100 million Christmas cards this year – and turn them back into trees.

Charity to turn Christmas cards back into trees

Chicago Tribune - United States

While the federal government doesn’t usually endorse products, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has struck an unusual arrangement with agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. that gives farmers in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota a break on federal crop insurance premiums if they plant Monsanto-brand seed corn this spring.

Seed controversy sprouts

Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada

Amid messages of new technologies and altering lifestyles, Canadians looking to make a change in 2008 should take heart that it doesn’t all have to be sacrifice.

Is new social climate needed for green living?

Sunday Times.lk - Columbo,Sri Lanka

Warwick Gardens is a century old colonial bungalow, situated in the lush peaks of Ambewela on a thirty acre estate. Jetwing Warwick Gardens is an abandoned English bungalow that has recently been restored under the watchful eyes of the famed architect Channa Daswatte.

Warwick Garden for nature holidays

Arab Times - Kuwait

In Uganda, citropsis roots are believed to be aphrodisiac and their success has left the so-called ’sex tree’ on the brink of extinction and its avid male consumers deeply concerned.

Uganda’s ‘organic viagra’ up a tree

Lakefront Hartwell - Hartwell,GA,USA

Standing dead trees may appear to be useless eyesores, but a state wildlife biologist says actually they are important components of wildlife habitat and frequently in short supply.

Leave Some Dead Trees Standing to Help Wildlife

Ha’aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel

Ezra Yasur enters a dense thicket next to Lake Hula in the Upper Galilee. “This is a branched bur reed,” he says. “It flowers beautifully and is now in danger of becoming extinct. We are trying to spread it,” he added, holding a leaf of the plant.

Giving nature a helping hand

San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA

This is a great year for toyon berries. Toyon, Heteromeles arbutifolia, is our California native holly. So convincing is its impersonation - at least by the standards of early European immigrants here - that the name stuck

Toyon’s colorful berries mark Christmas and provide winter fodder