Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank – the largest wild plant seed bank in the world – has collected and stored 2.4 billion seeds in the 20 years since it opened. Millennium Seed Bank (MBB) in Sussex hides its extensive collection of seeds from around the world in secretive chambers underground, banking them to conserve them for … Read more
Taylor Swift fans have gone wild after the singer hid ‘Easter Eggs’ themed around her Folklore album in her new Capital One commercial. Folklore became the ultimate COVID-19 quarantine soundtrack, following its highly successful release in July. And although the singer-songwriter, 30, appears in the advert for a mere 11-second, Swift cleverly paid homage to her eighth studio … Read more
Pregnant Ashley Tisdale has nurseries on her mind. On Friday the High School Musical vet, 35, was spotted picking up a small haul of plants and soil from Rolling Greens in Los Angeles. Showing off her nurturing side, the expecting mother flexed her green thumb as she carried her newest additions to her car. Nursery … Read more
Millions of pounds worth of plastic supermarket trays are being stolen by organised crime gangs and secretly recycled at firms across the UK. Crooks are looting the food baskets from shops and stores and delivering them to companies who ‘turn a blind eye’ to their origin, an investigation has revealed. Once broken down by crooked … Read more
‘Zombie’ batteries cause hundreds of fires a year at recycling plants after owners throw them away carelessly The ESA launched a campaign urging people to correctly dispose of batteries It warns consumers to never throw away dead batteries with rubbish or recycling CCTV shows explosions triggered by ‘zombie’ batteries at UK recycling centres Around 250 fires at waste … Read more
Herby fraud: One in four samples of sage contain the leaves of other plants, study finds More than 25 per cent of samples of the herb sage were found to be adulterated Scientists found olive leaves and leaves from other trees though none were toxic The same team of experts discovered adulterated oregano samples back … Read more
Investors cheered SSE after it struck a deal to sell stakes in plants that generate power from burning rubbish. The energy group will sell its 50 per cent holdings in two sites that are up and running in Yorkshire and another which is in development, for £995million. RBC Capital Markets analysts said the sale, to … Read more
Adding ornamental plants such as daffodils and petunias to your front garden can lower stress levels and help you feel happier, study shows Researchers gave residents in Salford plants to put in their bare front gardens The measured how the changed the participant’s stress levels and feelings Plants doubled the number of subjects in the … Read more
Two fifths of the world’s plants are at risk of extinction, up from an estimated fifth in 2016, according to Kew Gardens. In total, 140,000, or 39.4 per cent, of plants are threatened with extinction, up from an earlier estimate of 21 per cent from four years ago, the organisation says. Kew’s annual State of the … Read more
A residential tower in Australia will take green living to new heights. Urban Forest, a 30-story high-rise in South Brisbane, will be covered in a ‘vertical garden’ of over 20,000 trees and plants, more than five times the greenery found in a nearby park. Raised up on large ‘tree trunk’ columns, the latest masterpiece from … Read more