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Plants that are increasingly disappearing miss the ‘gold standard’ of scientific research, experts warn
The technology is designed to detect stressful plant conditions, including drought, heat, cold and light stress
That’s the call from Friends of the Earth, which claims some of the biggest landowners in England have woodland cover ‘even lower than the weak national average’
Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Israel, have suggested plants stressed by drought or physical damage may emit high-frequency distress noises
POTR Pots has launched a range of innovative and eco-friendly plant pots able to self-water houseplants and cut carbon emissions
Scotscape, Greenwich University and Grosvenor believe it could – they are piloting the idea in Belgravia’s Ebury Street
Researchers suggest this is more than twice the number of other animals that have died out over the same time period
Since 1990, deforestation has caused the loss of more than 290m hectares of forests that help absorb harmful carbon emissions from the atmosphere
It would focus on the connection with the environment in the Morecambe Bay
The medieval city of York, famous for its Minster (pictured) is now home to a research centre which looks into developing chemicals from renewable sources. Based at the University of York, the facility will give firms and academics a place to test, develop and scale up biorefining processes. Biorefining is a way of processing biomass […]