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Jackson County hosts BirdFest

Balsam Mountain Trust announced its seventh-annual Bird Festival celebrating World Migratory Bird Day.  This year, BirdFest’s theme is “Protect I...

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Huge genetic study redraws the tree of life for flowering plants

Using genomic data from more than 9500 species, biologists have mapped the evolutionary relationships between flowering plants

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The Netherlands Is Losing Its Insect-Pollinated Flowers

A wide range of plant species rely on insects for pollination, but the diversity of these insect-pollinated plants have decreased dramatically in recent decades

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It's time to get gardening while the warm weather sticks around

If you're just staring out your garden, or your looking to grow, now's the time to get planting.District Manager for Bell Nursery, Carol Jacobs, joined the FOX4

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Question of the Day: Have you started your gardening yet this spring?

A Freeze Warning has been issued for most of West Michigan on Wednesday, with the exception of Berrien County.

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'Like a Noah's Ark of plants': Conservation facility in the UK builds up collection of 2.4 billion seeds

Plant species are dying out around 500 times faster than before humans started to shape the world.

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CBS Weekend News

dead leaves, stunted growth. this looks totally different. >> we have begun to notice that the forest has become shorter and shorter as time has gone on. and so you can visibly see that the forest is experiencing stress under these conditions. >> reporter: when trees and plants die and decay, they release carbon. fortunately, healthy trees and soil absorb more carbon than what's being released. but wood is finding their ability to keep doing that might be in jeopardy. her team is making hundreds of measurements of the forest, recording the growth of plants, looking underground at the health of the root system, and this device records how much carbon the soil is releasing. >> so after one year of warming, we saw a major increase in the amount of carbon dioxide that was coming out of these soils. >> reporter: her experiment is showing us rising temperatures cause forests to release more carbon. more carbon in the atmosphere causes the planet to get warmer. and the cycle continues.

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CBS Weekend News

something about climate change right now. one scientist is going to great lengths to do her part. here's cbs's david schechter. >> reporter: a hot spot for research, that's one way to think of this plot of puerto rican forest strung with high voltage lines. >> hi, i'm tana. >> david. >> reporter: dr. tana wood is a research ecologist with the u.s. forest service who studies how tropical forests will respond to climate change. >> how can we get this window into a future warmer world hundreds of years into the future? >> reporter: those black panels are electric heaters running 24/7, warming up this plot of the jungle by 7 degrees fahrenheit. she says worst case scenario, that's how much warmer it could be on earth by the end of the century if we keep emitting heat-trapping carbon from our cars, factories and power plants. this experiment was interrupted by hurricane maria in 2017. and ever since the plants in the heated section have struggled to recover.

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Millenium Seed Bank in Britain stores 2.4 billion seeds as insurance

With two in five plant species at the risk of extinction, giving a safe home to some of the world’s most threatened flora is a pressing concern. In response, the Millennium Seed Bank in Britain has built up a collection of 2.4 billion seeds from more than 40,000 species. And it is helping other seed banks learn how t

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Keep it native: Native plants benefit local ecosystem

In her 1970 classic “Big Yellow Taxi,” Joni Mitchell laments the use of insecticides and asks of farmers, “Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.” In 2019, researchers affiliated with Cornell University issued a study finding that the population of birds in the United States and Canada […]

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