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Nature News in Review – Week Ending March 6, 2009

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 [...]

Nature News in Review – Week Ending February 27, 2009

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 [...]

Nature News in Review (week ending 16 January, 2009)

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 [...]