15-03-18 One has the leisure of July for perceiving all the differences of the green of leaves. It is no longer a difference in degrees of maturity, for all the trees have darkened to their final tone, and stand in their differences of character and not of m...
15-02-27 Nothing. No tracks but my own are stitched into the dusting of fresh snow, white as birch bark, that fell during the night. No flittering shadows in the trees, not a sliver of bird song in the air. What sun there is this time of year shines weakly,...
15-01-05 Money really does grow on trees - at least in Australia. Scientists have found gold in the leaves of eucalyptus trees. The particles are much too small to be seen with the naked eye but have been detected using a type of x-ray that is especially goo...
14-12-22 The Shallow End Aaron Fagan Not what I Am used to Thinking of As life -- and More fragile -- Up from the Riverbed, it Trails braided Fishing lines From its body -- Seeing me, It bursts away Among trees. My body Quickens in Front of my Mind -- I sit...
14-11-13 Jem stayed moody and silent for a week. As Atticus had once advised me to do, I triedto climb into Jem's skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley Place attwo in the morning, my funeral would have been held the next afternoon. So...
14-10-09 Certain types of corals, invertebrates of the sea that have been on Earth for millions of years, appear to have found a way to survive some of their most destructive threats by attaching to and growing under mangrove roots. Scientists with the U.S....
14-09-29 Magpies are clever birds. At the beginning of every spring it can predict the weather for the whole year. If this year will be windy, it will move its nest from tall trees to a low crotch of a tree. By doing so it keeps the nest away from the threat...
14-07-29 In the first broad-scale estimate of air pollution removal by trees nationwide, U.S. Forest Service scientists and collaborators calculated that trees are saving more than 850 human lives a year and preventing 670,000 incidents of acute respiratory...
14-06-04 Hugging trees helps koalas to keep cool, a study has revealed. 一项研究发现,抱着树木有助于考拉保持凉爽。 Thermal images revealed how cool the trunks of large trees were In a study published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, scientists u...
14-06-04 One summer, two men, who had come to the country for their holidays. They were walking in an orchard. They saw that all the trees were bending under a heavy load of apples. Except one tree on which there were no apples at all. A small country boy wa...