Child domestic work is one of the issues often connected with human trafficking in popular discourses. The idea of ignorant and unsuspecting parents and children being tricked into situations of trafficking for domestic labour is rife and has driven education and awareness campaig...
In a nutshell, to successfully transplant a mature palm tree without endangering it, you should excavate it with minimal root disturbance, safely transport it to the new location, prepare the soil and planting area beforehand, and provide extra care for the palm after planting to reduce transplan...
Weed barriers, either fabrics or cloth, do not harm the tree unless they are cutting into the trunk and girdling growth. According to Patton, there is no need for them around a tree. "The mulch layer will control most weed growth, conserve soil moisture and keep the soil cooler, increasi...
Those anxieties had been acutely primed just a month earlier by a blog post written by the famed cryptographer and security guru Bruce Schneier. It was titled “Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet.” The Big Story Newsletter: Riveting Deep-Dives Our deepest dives and ...
Since the wind rarely let up, I could even get by in the summer without air conditioning. The house itself was old and small, but the garden in back was spacious. Left to its own devices it was a riot of tall green weeds, and a family of cats made its home there. When a ...
Fortunately many forest products’ customers worldwide understand Maine’s favorable environmental profile as it relates to forestry and that SFI, Tree Farm and FSC contribute to that end. To the point offered by the Manomet Center for Environmental Sciences regarding a negative backlash for Maine’...
A Hayward man, Steve Stevenson, said he and his wife, Christie, tried to run out of their front door when the quake hit, but “it was impossible to run . . . “We held on to a tree in the front yard and watched the water in the swimming poor come out in three-foot waves,” ...
It’s okay if you don’t want to go on a play date with the kids with HER, she is sometimes passive agressive… but you say yes because you’re nice. Perhaps you want guests or relatives staying with you, to consult you before cutting down and killing a tree in your yard? Maybe...
Living in a farming community in a narrow valley, it’s no surprise that we had our fair share of run-ins with the local wildlife. We hit a deer with a little black Jetta and had to straighten the hood by hooking it to a rope, tying the rope to a tree, and then backing up the...
For example, trees benefit from targeted application of fertilizer. Thus, the disclosed liquid delivery device 100 can be used to disrupt the soil around the drip line of a tree and to dispense liquid fertilizer directly into the ground surrounding the tree....