Flora Some of the finest gardens and woodlands in Britain are under threat from two closely related and aggressive fungus-like plant diseases. Studying the effects of ultraviolet radiation on bryophytes can help scientists understand its impacts on crops, ecological systems, and humans. Fauna A Red-tailed Hawk is in intensive care at the Audubon Society of [...]
Flora Naturalists in Cambridgeshire say they have been astounded by the large number of ancient trees that have been found preserved in the peat soil of the Fens. Almost 90,000 food crop seed samples have arrived at the “doomsday vault” in the Arctic Circle, as part of its first anniversary celebrations. A Douglas Fir in [...]
Flora Trees across the tropics are getting bigger and offering help in the fight against climate change. The search is on for a rare fungal microorganism in Chile that may be capable of producing diesel fuel. Fauna Bird thought to be extinct seen, photographed, sold, and eaten. Ridge-top residents of Rossmoor, California tried everything to scare away [...]
Flora Behind the scenes at Kew. The largest glasshouse at the Royal Botanic Gardens in west London is home to 17,000 plants – but is out of bounds to the public. Three All-America Rose Selections winners announced for 2009. Fauna Even in the midst of an ecological catastrophe, glimmers of goodness emerge. As the Aussies [...]
Flora A new method of examining the inner workings of plants has shed light on how they harvest the Sun’s energy. Baylor botanist discovers new species of legume. “We gardeners impose order on nature, but in a good way, right?” Fauna The fossil remains of a 43-foot snake whose species flourished between 58 million to 60 [...]
Sorry for my absence from Nature News in Review last week. Aside from being in attendance at the Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival in Titusville, Florida, I was battling what I logically assumed was an infestation of malware on my laptop that made me unwilling to enter any passwords into it until all the [...]
As it was the subject of half a bazillion news reports over the past few days, we of course have to include a report on the theory that it was a bird strike that brought down US Airways flight 1549 into New York’s Hudson River (and the extraordinary skill and quick thinking of the pilot [...]
Some weeks are not the most productive for nature news; others are awash in great stories. This week is certainly one of the latter, especially for those interested in discoveries arising from either recently discovered species or the first examinations of species long known but only recently captured. Flora A US airline has completed the [...]
Well, even though Twelfth Night has not yet arrived, the holidays are more or less over and the work of a new year has begun. As regular readers of the Nature News in Review may have noticed, there was no post last week in order to allow the Nature Blog Network team (or at least [...]
In the words of the famous British philosopher Winnie the Pooh, The more it snows (Tiddely pom), The more it goes (Tiddely pom), The more it goes (Tiddely pom) On snowing. Across the northern U.S., it’s done just that for most of the past week; thus we’ve had quite a bit of time, stuck in [...]
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