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• Endangered Species of the Week: American burying beetle

  
  Greenfudge.org - Climate Change, Ecology, Nature, Environment, Controversial issues, Politics, Non Profit, Human Rights, Preservation — Authority: 112
  Image courtesy of ARKive.org Image courtesy of ARKive.org Species: American burying beetle ( Nicrophorus americanus ) Status: Critically Endangered (CR) Interesting Fact: The American burying beetle buries a whole carcass to feed its young! The largest carrion beetle in North America, the American ...
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• The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

  
  This will hurt me... — Authority: 116
  Ezra scoots in amongst the vegetation.
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• 001 New Species of Orchid Found

  
  Slenthik — Authority: 117
  The JakartaGlobe reports on the discovery of two new species of orchid in Kalimantan.  The one pictured is dendrobium flos-wanua.  The other species is dendrobium dianae, which is pale green to a shiny deep yellow – perhaps a little more vibrant than the flos-wanua. The article says that only 60% of ...
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• Carmines winter flowers, No. 2

  
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  A barely pink rose. Carmine Superiore, January 2012.
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• Achillea moschata

  
  Find Me A Cure — Authority: 116
  Botanical Name : Achillea moschata Family: Asteraceae Subfamily : Asteroideae Tribes: Anthemideae Subtribes: Achilleinae Genus : Achillea Sectio : A. sect. Anthemoideae Species : Achillea erba-rotta Subspecies : Achillea moschata subsp. moschata Synonym: Achillea erba-rotta var. moschata Common ...
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• The Borrowers (1997)

  
  The Squeee — Authority: 109
  Film review: The Borrowers (1997), directed by Peter Hewitt Based on Mary Nortons books about the Borrowers, is this1997 adaptation (and I use that term loosely), where the Clocks are a family of "Borrowers" - a kind of miniature humans that live under our floorboards and in our walls, living of things which ...
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• Alaska allows aerial shooting of grizzlies

  
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  photo by Arthur Chapman (Flickr CC) Alaska’s main animal predators are now at risk of being shot from helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. It is already legal to bait and snare bears in Alaska, a practice even some hunting advocates find inhumane. In order to increase the hunting of caribou and moose in the ...
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• High fibre diets don’t protect gut health

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Washington, Jan 24 (IANS) High fibre diets, surprisingly, may not protect gut health, but they do heighten your chances of developing diverticulosis.The condition is characterised by small bulging pouches forming on the inner lining of large intestine, trapping bits of stool and becoming infected. Sympoms include ...
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• U.S., Russia to conduct joint inspection in Antarctica

  
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  Ecofriendlytip.com The United States and Russian will send a joint team to inspect foreign stations, installations and equipment in Antarctica pursuant to the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 and its Environmental Protocol from January 23 to January 28, the U.S. State Department announced Saturday
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• International Balloon Festival kicks off in Chiang Mai

  
  AIT News, Thailand news — Authority: 131
  CHIANG MAI, 21 January 2012 (NNT) – Chiang Mai Province launched the 2012 International Balloon Festival yesterday as part of the plan to celebrate Her Majesty the Queen’s 80th birthday anniversary and HRH Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn’s 5th cycle birthday anniversary. The event, which is taking place in San ...
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• Three Little Pigs

  
  Sowers4Pastors — Authority: 108
  The three little pigs - our new ones. The larger spotted one belongs to Russell. Here are the three new pigs, with our older one, so you can see the difference in size. They seem to be getting along well together. We still dont have a pigpen set up, and having four pigs on the back porch of the kids ...
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• Purple Monkey Flower (Mimulus lewisii)

  
  Sitka Nature — Authority: 111
  Mimululs lewisii )" class="thickbox" rel="singlepic8047"> Purple Monkey Flower ( Mimulus lewisii ) Purple Monkey Flower ( Mimulus lewisii ) is a plant with showy pink flowers that ranges from California to British Columbia and Southeast Alaska, over into the Rocky Mountains. I was excited to see this plant for ...
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• Grass Waves and Bitterns

  
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  It was a very rainy day the last time I went up to stay at Miranda on the Firth of Thames, so I left later in the afternoon, when the sky was starting to clear. There were some lovely cloud formations over the Waikato dairy farmlands: ... but from the road looking east over the stilt ponds, it appears ...
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• UK: Invasive species and wild big cats!

  
  Greenfudge.org - Climate Change, Ecology, Nature, Environment, Controversial issues, Politics, Non Profit, Human Rights, Preservation — Authority: 112
  photo from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (public domain) The UK is now home to a host of non-native plant and animal species. So-called ‘invasive species’ were invariably imported to the UK as pets, introduced for farming and aquaculture or taken here for some other reason – by humans, of course. Now that ...
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• My first successful cauliflower!01/18/12 5:59 PM

  
  Your New Favorite — Authority: 110
  My first successful cauliflower! 01/18/12 5:59 PM
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• Crossing Border Tyrol - South Tyrol and a Break News

  
  chachamisu photography, art and tourbook — Authority: 98
   We crossed Austrian Tyrol - Italian South Tyrol by car   White land PS: Dont you know there was freaky snowing in African desert? I saw the news on TV. Coffee and hot chocolate..nyumm. It was still Austrian Heisse Shokolade, not yet as thick and melty super delicious Italian ...
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• Our Poor Cow!

  
  Sowers4Pastors — Authority: 108
  We have had a certain cow and her calf for a year, and until this week I had never seen them. This was the cow that was so pregnant she couldnt walk all the way to our place, so we left her in the care of a friend, whose property was near where she decided to stop walking. I originally shared the story here . Its ...
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• Escaping the heat wave

  
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  I walked back into the mountains on the east side of Silvermine yesterday with Lyn Macallum and her friends Jenny and Andrea. I had imagined following a similar route to the one I took with Helen ten days ago, but this time I saw a new side of the peninsula, yet again. The hills within hills, valleys upon mountains, ...
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• Feast on the fruits at the end of the year

  
  Trips In Borneo — Authority: 92
  Enjoying the variety of different fruits with a relatively cheap price would have been fun. This is sometimes only time we usually encounter in the fruit is in season or fruit harvest. Moreover we... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Cattails – Natures Supermarket

  
  Mother Earths Moments — Authority: 115
  I’ve been doing some research on cattails recently.   There’s alot of information available on the net.  Below are several videos and links that I’ve found useful so far. Various articles on the web: Bushcraft USA forum search for cattails.  Lots of info here from from knowledgable people. USDA Plant profile ...
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