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Get houseplants delivered straight from the greenhouse

If you don't have an independent plant shop nearby, Bloomscape is the next best thing.




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Doctors are prescribing houseplants for anxiety, depression, and loneliness

A medical practice in Manchester, England is giving patients indoor plants to help boost wellness.




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Why succulents make such good houseplants

Learn about the advantages of indoor succulents, plus everything you need to know about their light and watering needs.




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How to prepare houseplants for fall

WIth cooler weather and shorter days, your indoor plants could use a little help getting ready for the new season.




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The benefits of grouping houseplants together

Strategically clustering indoor plants in a group is a great idea, here's why and how to do it.




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9 plants to grow for your medicine cabinet

From sleep aids to pain relievers, here's how to grow your own natural remedies.




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5 forgiving houseplants that don't ask for much

Perfect for beginners, brown thumbs, or people on the go, these easy indoor plants don't mind low light, low humidity, or irregular watering.




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How to care for houseplants during the winter

Colder weather provides some unique challenges for indoor plants; here's how to how to help them get through it.




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14 houseplants perfect for Valentine's Day

From love potion plants and heart-shaped leaves to love goddess blooms, these plants are like a valentine from Mother Nature.




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20 of the most practical plants you can grow

Even if doomsday never comes, these 20 plants are some of the most practical you can grow.




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How to get your houseplants through the winter

From watering needs to ideal temperatures, here's what to know to help your indoor plants survive the cooler months.




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Growing virtual plants could teach farmers how to best grow real ones

Researchers are developing computer simulations that can improve agricultural success.




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15 houseplants that won't poison pets

Many houseplants are toxic for curious cats and dogs. These ones are all pet-friendly.




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Make eco-friendly confetti out of plants

Because plastic-based glitter and confetti take 1000 years to break down.




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North Carolina Finds Excess Toxic Metals In Water Near Coal Plants

State regulators have found boron, arsenic, selenium and other toxic metals near 14 power plants, all in excess of state health standards.




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World's largest vertical garden hosts 115,000 plants to create "living building" (Video)

This vertical garden on a residential high-rise in Bogotá reuses greywater from its residents and helps to clean the air.




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Yucatan Travel Journal, Day 2: Healing plants, underwater sinkholes, and a carbon offset forest

As part of an ongoing series about the Maya Ka'an community-based tourism initiative, this was my first official day in the Mayan region, and it was certainly full of adventure.




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Ethiopia plants 350 million trees in a day, breaks world record

Ethiopia’s ambitious national reforestation program seeks to plant 4 billion trees by October.




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6 perfect houseplants for dorm rooms

From boosting focus and cleaning the air to improving wellness in general, these easy indoor plants are a great addition to dorm decor.




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7 houseplants you can eat

Of course you won't want to eat your beloved decorative houseplants, but there are plenty of edible plants that can be grown indoors.




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Here's what your houseplants need for spring

As your indoor plants reawaken from winter dormancy, here’s how to prepare them for their glory days ahead.




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The hidden health risks of breast implants

This is serious surgery with long-term implications. We need to stop treating it so lightly.




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Folding plant pot expands to fit your growing plants

Now that's handy: no more need for replanting.




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Shade plants that will grow in the trickiest spots

There is an art to shade gardening: keep it simple.




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Shade plants that will bloom right now

Here are a few shade plants that will add end-of-summer colour to your shady patches.




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Exquisite jewelry made with living plants keeps growing

Elegant necklaces, rings, bracelets and earrings are planted with hardy succulents and worn as jewelry.




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The houseplants that are thriving in my bathroom jungle

Through trial and error, these are the indoor plants that have taken well to living in my bathroom.




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CES 2013: Do We Need Another Gadget that Tells Us When to Water and Feed Our Plants?

Are we really that dependent on technology now that we can't water our plants without a gadget telling us when to do so?




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Tesla CEO Elon Musk's coronavirus rant highlights just one of many hurdles automakers face in reopening plants

In reopening plants, automakers face worker safety issues and must abide by local mandates, which Tesla CEO Elon Musk highlighted earlier this week. Then there are more complex problems.




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Michigan governor to allow state's auto manufacturing plants to reopen next week

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will allow the state's auto manufacturing plants, most of which have been shuttered since March due to the coronavirus pandemic, to reopen beginning Monday.




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Op-Ed: Cancer surgeries and organ transplants are being put off for coronavirus

In a given month, more than a million people have some kind of surgery. The elective procedures being postponed because of coronavirus aren't all optional. Cancer patients and organ recipients are being forced to wait.




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Ethanol plummets, plants turn to hand sanitizer

Jeff Broin, founder & CEO of POET, the world's largest producer of ethanol, says production is down by half, but two plants are being turned into hand sanitizer facilities, a new revenue stream the company plans to keep.




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WHO Adviser on Meat Plants: If We're at War, the Weapons We Need Are Tests and PPE, Not Pork

As President Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to bar local governments from closing meatpacking plants around the United States, we get response from a longtime adviser to the World Health Organization. "When Congress passed that act, it certainly did not have in mind that the president has the power or the right to put workers' lives and health at risk," says Lawrence Gostin, professor of global health law at Georgetown University and director of the World Health Organization Center on National and Global Health Law. Gostin also discusses why he joined 40 leading center directors in a declaration this week that urges Trump and Congress to restore and increase WHO funding.




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"It's Very Scary": COVID Surges in Meat Plants as Activists Demand Worker Safety & Meatless Mondays

At least 20 workers at meat processing plants have died from COVID-19, and around 5,000 have tested positive, but President Trump invoked an executive order to bar local governments from closing meat plants. We hear from meat plant workers and organizers about conditions during the pandemic and speak with Sindy Benavides, CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens, which is supporting the workers with a virtual town hall on food worker safety with presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and calling for Meatless May Mondays.






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Study Reveals How Plants Breathe?

Plants create networks of air channels, the lungs of the leaf to transport carbon dioxide to their cells, said experts led by the Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield.




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Living Donor Liver Transplants Offer Better Survival Rates and Costs

Living-donor liver transplants are found to be better than deceased-donor liver transplants. Living-donor transplants have better survival rates and other




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Stem Cell Transplants in Utero: Fresh Insights

A new study in mice has revealed administering stem cell or enzyme therapy in utero paves path to alleviating some congenital diseases that often result in losing a pregnancy.




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Liver Transplants From Older Donors Decrease Despite Improved Outcomes In Recipients

Even though recipients who received liver grafts from older donors (70 and older) had improved outcomes with reduced mortality, graft loss and postoperative




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Use of HCV-Infected Organs Viable for Patients Awaiting Heart Transplants

Nine patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) after receiving lifesaving heart transplants from deceased donors who were infected with the disease




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Blood Stem Cells Facilitate Harvest for Transplants

Blood-forming stem cells' stiffness was found to facilitate mobilization procedures used for stem cell-based transplants, said Winship Cancer Institute




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Racial Disparities Exist in Kidney Transplants

Despite a new system designed to reduce inequities, significant racial disparities exist among patients awaiting kidney transplants, finds a new study.




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New Technique May Eradicate World's Need for Liver Transplants

A new liver cell has been identified, which may eradicate the need of liver transplant in the near future. As there is an alarming rise in need of a liver




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India Performs 2nd Largest Number of Transplants in the World

"India performs the second largest number of transplants in the world, next only to USA as per data available on the Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation" said Dr.




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Heart Transplants From Hepatitis C Donors Safe

Survival rate of patients who received a heart transplant from a donor with hepatitis C to those who received hearts from donors without the disease was similar.




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Less-than-perfect Kidneys can be Successfully Used for Transplants

Each year, hundreds of deceased donor kidneys are discarded after being deemed not suitable under current medical criteria, can be transplanted safely




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Thousands Of Hip Replacement Patients Given The Wrong-Sized Implants

Hip implants which have left thousands of British people in pain after they were given the wrong-sized hip implants. The implants were manufactured




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Buy High Quality Oxygen Plants made in India

Companies as well as individual entrepreneurs looking for oxygen or nitrogen seek out an oxygen nitrogen plant in India. India is a developing country nourished with high quality raw materials. In addition, qualified workforce is also...




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United Kingdom Imports of Live Trees & Plants

Imports of Live Trees & Plants in the United Kingdom increased to 153.34 GBP Million in February from 85.53 GBP Million in January of 2020. Imports of Live Trees & Plants in the United Kingdom averaged 81.71 GBP Million from 2000 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 157.65 GBP Million in March of 2017 and a record low of 37.99 GBP Million in July of 2000. This page includes a chart with historical data for the United Kingdom Imports of Live Trees & Plants.