Category: NATURE’S SECRETS

Nature's Secrets by CanopyMeg

Championing the forests

I can try to explain it to you, but unless you see it for yourself, you really can’t grasp the situation. They’re going through one

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Nature's Secrets by CanopyMeg

Is it too hot for coffee?

Coffee is migrating. As it’s getting hotter at lower altitudes, the lower plants are dying off, so it marches the coffee forest up the slopes.

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Nature's Secrets by CanopyMeg

It’s all about the bugs

Most children have a bug period. — E.O. Wilson, distinguished insect scientist from Harvard University The 2012 International Congress of Entomology was held in Daegu,

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Nature's Secrets by CanopyMeg

Mining the waste stream

There is no such thing as waste, only wasted resources. — Chris Peot, Civil Engineer for DC Water, which treats waste water for Washington, D.C.

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Nature's Secrets by CanopyMeg

Joy of unplugging

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. — Helen Keller Twenty-eight citizen

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The joy of unplugging

Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: Twenty-eight citizen scientists from the North Carolina Nature Research Center traveled to the Amazon jungle for eight

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