Trees Glow During Thunderstorms, and Scientists Finally Caught It on Camera
Thunderstorms already have a lot going on. Lightning, sideways rain, the neighbor’s patio furniture doing parkour. Now add…
Trees Fire Off Ultraviolet Sparkles During Thunderstorms, Scientists Confirm
In the summer of 2024, a team of researchers went storm-chasing in a Toyota Sienna minivan in search…
Eco-friendly toilet papers are trendy, but their actual environmental impacts vary
Toilet paper, a product that is used for a few seconds before being disposed of forever, is typically…
Ōhope Beach Golf Links restores trees among dunes after unlawful clearing
The club admitted it made a mistake in cutting down 488 natives during a working bee it organised…
Council discovers 46 trees mistakenly cut down during park redevelopment
The Town of Victoria Park has revealed nearly 50 trees were removed without authorisation during redevelopment works to…
Deforestation boosts flash flood, landslide risk from Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Melissa pummeled areas of the Caribbean already vulnerable to landslides and flash flooding because of factors made…
Fresh doubts over WA Labor election commitments to boost Perth’s tree canopy
The WA government is facing fresh questions over its plans to boost Perth’s tree cover, with experts saying…
Kratom ‘Cousin’ Tree May Hold Genetic Recipe For Cancer-Active Alkaloid
Mitragyna Parvifolia tree. (Credit: Haena148 on Shutterstock) In A Nutshell Scientists mapped the Mitragyna parvifolia genome and identified…
AA Design & Make students devise simple way to build with tree forks
Students from London’s Architectural Association have developed a low-cost and easily repeatable way to build with tree forks…
Eucalypt trail named after botanist Dean Nicolle opens in SA
Nearly two decades ago, artist Ian Roberts set out to paint every known eucalypt. His project is finally…
Nine homes designed around growing food for a good life
To mark the beginning of harvest festival season in many parts of the world, we’ve rounded up nine…
Researchers using cryopreservation to save critically endangered Gossia gonoclada
Cryopreservation was once the stuff of science fiction, but now the technology is being used to help save…