Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada

Joanne Argante saw her business blossom into a success but big box stores and the Internet uprooted her from her career

The Flower Lady reflects

PEJ News - Victoria,BC,Canada

Local, natural, inspiring, hip, the Organic Islands Festival and Sustainability Expo is a rallying community-based event providing a look at who’s who in green community.

Organic Islands Festival and Sustainability Expo

Science Daily (press release) - USA

Plants are very selective when it comes to choosing mates. Flowering plant pollination systems are clever devices for attracting pollinators like birds, ants, and insects, but there are also mechanisms for keeping out unwanted pollen.

Mate Choice In Plants

Times Online - UK

This is the time to be out all day and all night, revelling in the under- and overgrowth of gardens at their peak. Whether you are planning a sun-baked picnic with Pimms in hand or a balmy evening with the scent of roses and stocks stoking up the sensual fires, you just need to know where to go.

Ten sumptuous Summer garden events

Globe and Mail - Canada

Faced with global warming, plants are heading for the hills.
A study of 171 forest species in Western Europe shows that most of them are shifting their favoured locations to higher, cooler spots.

Plants head for the hills

Sunderland Echo - Sunderland,England,UK

There are thousands of creepy crawlies scurrying around beneath your feet. As this week is National Insect Week, we took a closer look.

Tiny treasures

University of Delaware - Newark,DE,USA

This fall, the University of Delaware Botanic Gardens (UDBG) will complete its new lepidoptera garden, which is designed to attract butterflies, moths and their larvae.

New UD garden designed to attract butterflies and moths

BBC Berkshire - UK

Find out more about our six-legged friends in a week dedicated to all insects great and small. Nature expert Jason Ball takes us through the events taking place in Berkshire.

National Insect Week

Organic-Market.Info - Germany

In recent years Afghanistan has become the biggest producer of opium worldwide. In 2007, this country on the Hindu Kush produced 8, 200 tons of opium - 2.3 times as much as in 2003 - with an export value of four billion US dollars.

Organic roses instead of opium

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA

A professor picked up a wood fragment with the word “Mohammed” traced on it in Arabic by bugs.

Scholar sees sign in bark inscribed by insects