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04/10/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

Trees in the city can handle the heat and the bugs – if they have enough water

Having adequate amounts of water is not only applicable to humans, but also to trees. Trees in the urban area can survive the heat and the bugs if they have enough water. The study, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, found that lack of water is a key stressor for city trees. The researchers […]

07/19/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

No genetic engineering needed: Simple VINEGAR can help plants resist drought, scientists find

Scientists continue to genetically engineer plants that are becoming less and less like anything that nature ever intended, and in the process, many of them are overlooking some very useful natural alternatives. One such solution was recently discovered by researchers at Japan’s RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS). After studying a new biological pathway […]

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