Holistic Management International Reacts to Grassland Plants Research Results From University of Minnesota
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University of Minnesota scientists recently reported research results  indicating that biofuels derived from grassland plants yield up to twice  as much energy, per unit of land, as corn-based ethanol does.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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By Richard Mize, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 17--So, it's still the dead of winter, but what have you got planned for your managed habitat patch this year?   My Bermuda grass is in pitiful shape where shadows fall. It needs help. The side yards are like wilderness areas.
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U.S. nanoscientists say they've transformed a molecule of chlorophyll-a from spinach into a complex biological switch. The study by Ohio University physicists Saw-Wai Hla and Violeta Iancu is said to have possible future applications for green energy, technology and medicine.
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By Rick Steelhammer, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.  Sep. 24--In a brisk September breeze, fluffy white heads of cotton grass, more often associated with Arctic terrain, sway on long stems atop lumpy tussocks of vegetation rising from the open expanse of tundra-like peat bog.
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By Milbauer, Michelle L Leach, Mark K  MILBAUER, M. L., AND M. K. LEACH (University of Wisconsin- Madison Arboretum, 1207 Seminole Highway, Madison, Wisconsin 53711). Influence of species pool, fire history, and woody canopy on plant species density and composition in tallgrass prairie. J.
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By Betsy Taylor  ST. LOUIS - Hunched over her desk at the Missouri Botanical Garden, Cynthia Hong-Wa scrutinizes tropical plants found only in her homeland almost 9,600 miles away in Madagascar.
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By James Mayse, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Feb. 24--U.S. farm policy has reverberations that are felt across the globe, and often not in ways that are positive, a group of environmental and anti-poverty groups said Friday.   In particular, U.S.
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By MATT MOORE     STOCKHOLM, Sweden  -- American researchers Dr. Richard Axel and Linda B...
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PARIS, Feb 1 (IPS) - Environmental and scientific experts agree that  degradation of biological diversity has reached historical  dimensions, but a North-South divide is emerging over action to  counter this crisis.
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By Griscom, Bronson W Daly, Douglas C; Ashton, Mark S  GRISCOM, B. W. (Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT 06511), D. C. DALY (The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY 10458), AND M. S.
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Reports released this week offer evidence of climate change's impact: Plants and animals are dying and showing up in places they shouldn't, the Arctic is heating rapidly and sea levels are rising. By Stephen Leahy.
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Climate change could drive many wild relatives of plants such as the potato and the peanut into extinction, threatening a valuable source of genes necessary to help these food crops fight pests and drought, an international research group reported.
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By CRYSTALR. REID  North Dakota has coal, oil and, more recently, ethanol from its corn.  Its landscape is dotted with corn, wheat, canola, soybeans and pulse crops. In between sit conservation lands, open prairie with native grasses.
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By Tom Webb, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Jun. 22--After seven years together, Land O'Lakes and CHS have decided to divide up their $3.7 billion joint venture in agronomy, called Agriliance, the two Minnesota-based farm cooperatives said Thursday.
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By JOHN DOBBERSTEIN World Staff Writer  Natural methods slow to catch on in Oklahoma   Stubbornness drove Sam Jorgenson into organic farming.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Dec. 17--The Colorado Conservation Tillage Association and the National Sunflower Association will host the 19th Annual High Plains No-Till Conference, Jan. 30-31 at Island Grove Regional Park in Greeley.