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Why So Gloomy? By Richard S. Lindzen Newsweek International April 16, 2007 issue - Judging from the media in recent months, the debate over global warming is now over. There has been a net warming of the earth over the last century and a half, and our greenhouse gas emissions are contributing...

Send me 5 bucks for shipping (well if you really want to split hairs, 4.50 would do but a 5 dollar bill is just easier to deal with) and I'll sent you 2 species (multi crowned by the way) of haworthia and some little red weird echevaria thing. Hell I dunno what it is and I'm not going to post...

for a show and tell type thing for some third graders. i forgot i promiced that i would show off my plants this spring when they got done with their plant section in science. unfortunatly last year i severly cut down on what i have to make room for interesting stuff this spring and summer. my...

California town to try birth control to limit squirrel population Updated 5h 46m ago | Comments8 | Recommend13 E-mail | Save | Print | SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Officials have tried poison, gassing and euthanasia to control a breeding frenzy among squirrels in a city park here. Now...

3 of my sundews have been infested with a bunch of little white things that look kinda like tiny grains of rice....one person said they were probably mealybugs........talk about a bummer! So my question is how should I get rid of them???? It was suggested to me to try a product called Bayer...

Ok, quick question, hopefully somebody will be able to answer it quickly and let this thread die. Light sockets are built for specific wattages(ex. "to reduce risk of fire do not use wattage over 60W). For a compact fluorescent bulb, what wattage should I go by for saftey? The actual wattage...

Lately, I have been having lots of bad luck at a certain busy intersection when turning left going back home from work/class. Let me give you a basic rundown of what basically happens to illustrate my repetitive misfortune: -As I approach the intersection, I enter the left turn lane. -If/when...

Dear Fellow Carnivorous Plant Enthusiasts, I hope you all have had a very happy Christmas and New Year. I hope those who have order Pitcher Plants of the Americas enjoy their copies – all orders from Redfern Natural History Productions have been dispatched and the books should all arrive...

Article  here. So what do you guys think? Enacting legeslation for proactive public health? Or massive civil liberties breach?

I had a previous thread on this but it doesnt seem to want to update properly, wherein Trent asked what Id like to know about growing Miranda, so heres my query: I live in super sunny SFl and am having mixed success trying to grow various cps. So far Im doing ok (been growing since about...

I had a previous thread on this but it doesnt seem to want to update properly, wherein Trent asked what Id like to know about growing Miranda, so heres my query: I live in super sunny SFl and am having mixed success trying to grow various cps. So far Im doing ok (been growing since about...

I had a previous thread on this but it doesnt seem to want to update properly, wherein Trent asked what Id like to know about growing Miranda, so heres my query: I live in super sunny SFl and am having mixed success trying to grow various cps. So far Im doing ok (been growing since about...

Hello guys, My name is varun. I am a 20 yr old third yr Biochem, Mol. Bio Spl. university student. I love animals and plants, but, kinda admire but hate insects ;). I always like having exotic species (plants) in my home, but this wish never materialises as I DO NOT want to endanger the plant...

Hi Folks, Just got back from a nice trip to Vermont and Massachusetts for a family reunion, and was able to visit one bog that was still accessible without hip waders, no thanks to the recent rain.  The bigger bog I really wanted to visit, Chickering Bog, was a mile up a barely marked, or...

Hey there. This is my first year to really have enough flowers to do any sort of planned breeding of my Sarracenia (and last year critters ate most of my seed pods ;_;) so I have some questions. First, what is the risk of unwanted pollination? I see bees occasionally but I haven't yet observed...

I don't think anybody has any good solutions, which means the debate will be especially rancorous, but here are a few things I think: * Whenever you have a rich nation adjoining a poor one, there will be incredible pressure to migrate to the rich nation, by any means necessary. * I am not...

Hi everybody, I was wondering if anyone has dealt with burnt flower stalks on their sundews when grown in a terrarium. I have the plants about 2-3 inches away from a glass cover on top of which 23 watt CF lights sit. The flower stalks are obviously much taller and are getting too close to the...

Blew the water pump on my '89 Land Cruiser. This is my only car so I kind of need to get it running again. I have pulled out everything to the water pump and disconnected all the hoses to the pump but I have a semi-serious crimp that I need to find a way past and I'd love some help. Here is the...

Ok I have more of these 2 then I know what to do with. There is much more then what I am offering below, but this will help me clear it out abit and see what I really have. D. spatulata 5 plants per request, I have enough for 10 people D. capensis typical 3 plants per request, I have enough...

Hey, I have a sort of strange question. How do you all feel about flytraps catching too many insects? I am growing them outside in pots for the first time and almost all the traps are shut from catching a pillbug there, an ant here, etc. Everyone else's pictures have flytraps with numerous...