Miami recently found that its electricity bills were 10 percent lower in areas with more than 20 percent tree cover compared to those areas without any trees, the New Scientist reports.
He knows that big companies will probably never want to make GM versions of a minor crop like walnuts, but he bemoans the fact that protecting his trees without pesticides is expensive (he uses pheromones to lure the insects into mating with everything but one another).
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More than 220 villages and towns in Bulgaria were left without electricity, and toppled trees cut power in several mountainous suburbs in the capital Sofia.
Dead trees come crashing down without warning one nearly got us today, it made us jump.
The felling of palm trees has been banned without the special permission of the Coconut Cultivation Board.
And without sufficient energy stores, coffee trees are unable to flower and produce the fruits whose seeds become coffee beans.
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Meanwhile, authorities were working to evacuate campers who survived the storm without injury but were stranded by fallen trees, Jordan said.
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Stimulus money has already made life brighter for Charles Ojuri, whose small construction firm was without work for seven months, until he was hired to clear trees around I-215.
The plaques, which were attached to trees in the town centre, were removed on Boxing Day without permission.
The tornado toppled trees, blew off roofs and left most of the rural town without power.
Within a few hours, he forgot that he had given the order, and in a few dozen years he in turn was forgotten, but these trees still stood, enormous now, some of them dead and looming without bark, white and leafless.
Without photosynthesis, the process by which plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into energy, the trees effectively starve.
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He said about 30 or 40 homes were facing a second night without power as engineers are not able to get access to power lines due to deep snow and fallen trees.
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