How many flowering plant species are there? Where are they? How many are going extinct, and how fast are they doing so? Interesting in themselves, these are questions at the heart of modern conservation biology. Determining the answers will dictate where and how...
goo d for the soul. b But in cities, limite d space has le d to people looking for b但是在城市,有限的空间促使人们寻找新的解决方案。new solutions. c For many people in the UK, their garden is their own private world.c对于很多在英国的人来说,他们的花园是他们的私人世界。 d This is ...
Passage Three Mixing plant species is how we've gotten papayas (木瓜) free of viruses, corn plants that survive drought, soybeans that stand up to weed killer, potatoes that don't bruise (碰伤), and crops that yield more and cost less. That's good news for our food supply and the bu...
After the Second World War, bonsai became more accessible to the average enthusiast, and as supplies have become less expensive and more plentiful, the hobby has become more popular, expanding to include plant species and design choices unimagined a few decades ago. Next, we'll look at the m...
We live in a ‘throwaway culture‘, where many of our things aren’t built to last. Each year, every house in the UK produces about1 tonne of waste– that’s about the same weight as agreat white shark! What’s worse, is that60%of what we throw away, is actuallyrecyclable! That’...
"It has 3,000 plant species recorded from that mountain, so that's double the flora of the British Isles," explains Hollingsworth. Above the garden, some 3,200 meters up the mountainside, is the laboratory. Set up in 2005, it is the UK's first joint scientific laboratory ...
According to paragraph 1, how did the majority of plant species arrive on islands created by geological processes such as volcanism? A. They were transported by ocean currents. B. They were carried to the islands by birds. C. They were brought to the islands by humans. D. They were ...
healthy, mostly Plant- based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating. Considering that the government's standards are not nearly ambitious enough, the Picture is clear: by not cooking at home, we're not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate....
Elephants can recognise themselves in a mirror, although they probably need to be a bit closer than this... © Binty/Getty Can elephants count? Much debate surrounds whether any animals are able to count in the precise, symbolic way that we humans can. But many species – from parrots to...
How are deserts formed? A A desert refers to a barren section of land, mainly in arid and semi-arid areas, where there is almost no precipitation, and the environment is hostile for any creature to …