Tree City Blue Island awarded grant to improve urban tree canopy
Blue Island was awarded a $150,000 grant from the Morton Arboretum’s Chicago Region Tree Initiative to improve the city’s ...
Meet The ‘Living Fossil’ That’s Older Than The Dinosaurs (Hint: It Also Survived A Nuclear Blast)
They’ve lived through the ice age, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and brushed off an atomic blast just a mile away ...
On four acres left centuries ago to ‘the poor,’ Milton fights another battle over housing
The town Select Board has hit the brakes on plans to put 35 affordable apartments on the final undeveloped acres of the ...
How to tell a spruce from a fir, and which is best for holiday decorating?
Spruces do not retain their needles for long, the needles are quite sharp, and the needles are not aromatic like those of ...
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South Sudan: Thousands of displaced and injured as war intensifies in Sudan
As South Sudan receives a massive influx of tens of thousands of people fleeing the intensified war in Sudan, Médecins Sans ...
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December Tree of the Month – Blue Atlas Cedar
Upon opening, two winged seeds per cone scale are disseminated by the wind ... Blue Atlas Cedar Foliage Gress (Photo by David ...
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Live trees can be recycled through ‘Christmas with the Fishes’ program
To recycle your tree, visit the Grimes Avenue Transfer Station during normal operating hours. After crossing the scales, trees will be collected in the back near the brush staging area. The City of ...
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Indigenous attorney fighting for climate justice in the world’s highest court
Julian Aguon wore a dark blue suit and garland made of white coconut fronds, brown hibiscus tree bark, and brown cowry shells ...
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Eau Claire’s Blue Ox Music Festival to welcome some red-hot twangers in 2025
Even with many other small-scale music festivals around the country drying up, western Wisconsin’s Blue Ox Music Festival keeps plowing along and just announced one of its best lineups yet for 2025.
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The Fitzpatrick Classification Scale for Skin Types
The Fitzpatrick scale (also known as the Fitzpatrick skin typing test or Fitzpatrick phototype scale) was developed in 1975 by Harvard Medical School dermatologist Thomas Fitzpatrick to classify a ...