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Kerala: Bison Valley turns golden as 40-acre sunflower farm replaces fallo
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Jijo Joseph Puthenveettil of Bison Valley has had a passion for farming and flowers since childhood. He planted flowering plants of various colours and shapes along the roadsides. In areas where paddy cultivation was once carried out continuously, many fields have now been left fallow due
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6.75 lakh potted foliage, flowering plants to adorn Delhi streets during G
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Six months down the line when greening efforts along roads and avenues associated with the G-20 Summit started in the national capital, with Delhi LG, VK Saxena taking the initiative of greening the Sardar Patel Marg, 6.75 Lakh pots of flowering and foliage plants will adorn the 61 roads
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Grasslands can be managed to benefit biodiversity and soil health: Study
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Grazed grassland makes up a large proportion of the British countryside and is vital to farming and rural communities. This land can be perceived as only being about food production, but this study gives more evidence that it could be key to increasing biodiversity and soil health.
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On Delhi LG's direction, MCD to beautify 375 public spaces for upcoming G-
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 8 (ANI): In pursuance to the directions of Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has started work on optimal utilization and beautification of urban green spaces by planting seasonal flowering plants to give an aesthetical
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Scientists uncover evidence that the Late Cretaceous hosted icy conditions
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 12 (ANI): Let's pretend it's the Late Cretaceous, roughly 66 to 100 million years ago. We've got dinosaurs roaming the land and odd-looking early species of birds, although the shark as we know it is already swimming in the prehistoric oceans which cover 82% of Ear
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Plants ability to actively control water loss evolved earlier than priorly
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 26 (ANI): The findings of new research have shed light on when plants first evolved their ability to respond to changing humidity in the air around them. It also found that this was probably a feature of a common ancestor of both ferns and flowering plants.
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Loss of elephants, megaherbivores could lead to rapid environmental change
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept. 13 (ANI): According to a new research loss of megaherbivores such as elephants and hippos could allow woody plants, non-grassy herbs and flowering plants to encroach the grasslands in African national parks.
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