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There are many benefits to community gardens. From greening urban ecosystems, to offering education and cultural opportunities, community gardens provide a venue for people to come together and stimulate social interaction. ADVERTISEMENT For individuals, these gardens also provide a v

ENN Twitter Muslims have been asked to encourage their spiritual leaders, imams, to devote this Friday Khutbah or sermon (19th April 2013) to celebrate the blessings, graces and beauty of all of Allah’s creation. Muaz Nasir from Khaleafa who is leading the effort is also hoping to rai

Popularization of the world’s strangest coffee may be imperiling a suite of small mammals in Indonesia, according to a new study in Small Carnivore Conservation. The coffee, known as kopi luwak (kopi for coffee and luwak for the civet), is made from whole coffee beans that have

Lead is a nasty poison and can kill. So can bullets. Lead ammunition continues to take a deadly toll on endangered California condors that live in and around the Grand Canyon. Seven of the 80 wild condors in Arizona and Utah have died since December; three of those deaths have been de

What would you say is the most littered item on US roadways? I think of two things: gum and cigarette butts. But let’s focus on cigarettes for now. ADVERTISEMENT Cigarette filters are made from cellulose acetate, a plastic which is technically biodegradable. However, cigarette b

Low availability of selenium, an essential human micronutrient, in Malawian soils is responsible for its deficiency among the country’s population, a study has found. ADVERTISEMENT Researchers from Malawi, New Zealand and the United Kingdom sought to establish both whether selen

Horseradish grown in the Midwest of the United States has been experiencing significant yield reductions for the past 30 years due to internal discoloring and root rot. ADVERTISEMENT According to crop science professor Mohammad Babadoost at the University of Illinois, “If the ro

Before Disney World, Silver Springs in Central Florida was for decades one of the state’s most popular tourist destinations. Even if you’ve never visited Silver Springs, you might have seen it — if you’re old enough. The 1960s television show Sea Hunt was filmed here

Remember seventeen years ago when those creepy looking orange and black insects covered nearly every tree and you could barely step outside without crunching on a molted shell or cringing when these winged creatures flew by? Maybe they weren’t in your neighborhood, but all along the e

The first study of its kind to calculate the amount of nutrients entering and leaving the Arctic Ocean has been carried out by scientists based at the National Oceanography Center, Southampton. Their results, which are published this month in the Journal of Geophysical Research, show