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Climate change is altering the genetic programming of plants - Earth ...
Jan 28, 2021 ... As a result, they can develop a wide range of unnatural leaf shapes in a response that is referred to as a “hidden reaction norm.” “Organisms ...
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Understanding how plants breathe could help create drought ...
Mar 21, 2020 ... Plants breathe in carbon dioxide through tiny pores in their leaves called stomata and expel oxygen as part of the photosynthesis process.
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China's Loess Plateau Was Formed By Wind - Earth.com
Aug 31, 2016 ... The UA team also found that, just as a leaf blower moves a pile of leaves away from itself, wind scours the face of the plateau so forcefully ...
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How to Get Your Yucca Plant to Flower - Earth.com - Earthpedia
By removing dying leaves, your yucca plant can focus its energy on new growth and the production of flowers instead of trying to maintain a dead leaf. If you ...
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Cover crops can produce a local warming effect in the wintertime ...
Jan 3, 2019 ... Instead, more heat is absorbed by the plant stems and leaves, and the atmosphere is warmed up. “Dark cover crops absorb the Sun's heat and then ...
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Wild orangutan treats his facial wound with a healing plant - Earth.com
May 3, 2024 ... Medicinal plant leaves. Rakus was observed selecting leaves from a liana known as Akar Kuning (Fibraurea tinctoria), chewing them, and ...
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New species of leaf-tailed gecko discovered in Madagascar - Earth ...
Aug 17, 2023 ... Now, a team of researchers led by the Bavarian State Collection for Zoology (ZSM) has discovered and named a new leaf-tailed gecko species ...
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Fibonacci spirals: An unexpected twist in plant evolution - Earth.com
Jun 16, 2023 ... The research implies that the evolutionary path of leaf spirals took two separate routes, with the leaves of ancient clubmosses carving out ...
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Calathea lancifolia Rattlesnake plant is an evergreen perennial
Oct 17, 2020 ... The plant's leaves fold together at night, and unfold again in the morning. Calathea lancifolia (rattlesnake plant) is a species of flowering ...
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Illegal gold mining dumps mercury in the Peruvian rainforest - Earth ...
Jan 28, 2022 ... ... leaf litter, soil and green leaves from the tops of trees – these were obtained using a huge slingshot. Their samples came from four ...
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