Autumn Harvest Basket wallpaper, Wildlife education boosts math scores, Mars lander finds minerals suggesting past water

Autumn Harvest Basket wallpaper
National Wildlife Federation’s Program Boosts Student Math Scores
Environmental education, defined as any educational activity that had a goal of producing citizens who had knowledge of the environment and its problems, as well as a motivation to solve those problems, is rooted in integrated education. It has become a popular and relevant addition [...]

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Echeveria Cactus wallpaper, Arctic ice still below average minimum

Echeveria Cactus wallpaper
Sometimes called rosette cactus Echeveria are fairly common at plant nurseries. The ones pictured have either just gotten a little rain shower or have been watered. The drops look pretty for the photo, but generally watering over the plant rather then into the soil will leave unattractive water spots from minerals in the [...]

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Antarctic Ice Breaker wallpaper, Geese With Bony-teeth Once Roamed Across SE England

Antarctic Ice Breaker wallpaper
Giant Ocean-going Geese With Bony-teeth Once Roamed Across SE England
A 50 million year old skull reveals that huge birds with a 5 metre wingspan once skimmed across the waters that covered what is now London, Essex and Kent. These giant ocean-going relatives of ducks and geese also had a rather bizarre attribute [...]

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Greyhound Rock Beach wallpaper, Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens, Another e. coli outbreak

Greyhound Rock Beach wallpaper
Native plants help sustain wildlife
In his book, “Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens” (Timber Press, $27.95), he writes of the unbreakable link between native plants and native wildlife.
The bugs, birds and other fauna are hard-wired to seek food and shelter from native plants or to use them [...]

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Heather and Sunflower wallpaper, Granite head of Ramses II found, Oldest rocks on Earth found

Heather and Sunflower wallpaper
Egypt unearths granite head of Ramses II
CAIRO, Egypt – Egypt’s antiquities council says that archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old red granite head believed to portray the 19th Dynasty pharaoh Ramses II.
…The council’s statement Thursday says the 30-inch high head belonged to a colossal statue of Ramses II that once stood in the [...]

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