Trees Can Form Bonds Like an Old Couple and Look After Each Other

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Trees have feelings. They can feel pain, but can also have emotions, such as fear.

Trees like to stand close together and cuddle.

There is in fact friendship among trees.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/trees-can-form-bonds-like-an-old-couple-and-look-after-each-other.html

“Extinct” Variety of Tree Rediscovered at Queen’s Palace in Scotland

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Two Wentworth elms identified at Holyroodhouse escaped Dutch elm disease, which destroyed millions of other trees

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Costco Joins a Host of Retailers Refusing to Sell GMO Salmon

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Costco joins supermarket chains including Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Safeway, and Kroger in promising not to sell the genetically modified fish, according to environmental group Friends of the Earth.

Read more:  http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/11/25/gmo-salmon-costco?cmpid=foodinc-fb

How First Nations Have Enhanced the Forest Over 13,000 Years of Habitation

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While most human occupation harms the landscape, new research shows that British Columbia’s coastal First Nations have made the forest thrive.

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Long-Disputed Maya Manuscript Turns Out To Be The Real Deal

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A mysterious and long-disputed document purported to be America’s oldest surviving manuscript is genuine.

That’s the conclusion of a new review of research on the Grolier Codex, a fragmentary 13th Century Maya text whose unlikely provenance ― it was reportedly found by looters in a Mexican cave in the 1960s ― had led some to conclude that it was likely a forgery.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/grolier-codex-maya-manuscript_us_57d07008e4b0a48094a74df1?section=&

This Image Could Contain ‘Billions Of Strange New Worlds’

Abell S1063, a galaxy cluster, was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Frontier Fields programme. The huge mass of the cluster acts as a cosmic magnifying glass and enlarges even more distant galaxies, so they become bright enough for Hubble to see.

Abell S1063, a galaxy cluster, was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Frontier Fields programme. The huge mass of the cluster acts as a cosmic magnifying glass and enlarges even more distant galaxies, so they become bright enough for Hubble to see.

The image above shows the galaxy cluster Abell S1063, which is “potentially home to billions of strange new worlds” according to scientists working with the Hubble Space Telescope. Visible near the center of the image, the cluster appears as it was four billion years ago.

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India Plants a Record 50 Million Trees in 24 Hours

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More than 800,000 volunteers planted saplings in public spaces in the state of Uttar Pradesh hoping to reduce greenhouse gases and reforest the countryside

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The Second-Largest City In The U.S. Is On The Verge Of Being 100 Percent Renewable

The City Council is going to consider a motion this month that would direct the municipal utility to determine how to move the city to 100 percent renewable energy. The motion already has broad support from councilmembers, and Los Angeles officials confirmed that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has begun work on the report, which will be developed with research partners, including the Dept. of Energy.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/06/10/3786420/los-angeles-to-go-renewable/

When in drought: the California farmers who don’t water their crops

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The Mediterranean climate of California’s coastal regions, particularly those to the north, is ideally suited to dry farming. Mornings are cool, afternoons warm, and the rains come every winter. Until the second half of the last century, dry farming was actually the norm here – and still is throughout much of Europe.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/05/dry-farming-california-drought-wine-crops?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+morning+briefing+2016&utm_term=170630&subid=1495975&CMP=ema_a-morning-briefing_b-morning-briefing_c-US_d-1