Topic: Europe
It's sunflowers instead of planes and kale instead of kerosene at legendary Tempelhof Airport, site of the Berlin Airlift and now home to one of Europe's biggest and most unusual urban gardens.Launched by a dozen "pioneers" in April, the Allmende Kontor plot ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A blast occurred at a garden center in Moscow on Thursday, possibly during welding work, state news agency RIA reported.A spokesman for Moscow city police said the force was not immediately available to confirm if an explosion had taken ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - London's gardens are changing from green to grey as householders are paving over front lawns, laying decking and building sheds, a wildlife charity said.The British capital is losing the equivalent of two and half times the size of ...
LONDON (Reuters) - New diets for cows and sheep could reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, research funded by the Department for environment, food and rural affairs (Defra) shows.Feeding the animals maize silage, naked oats and higher sugar grasses could reduce the amount ...
Santa comes to sharks: Berlin aquarium sends down red-cloaked diverA Berlin aquarium has sent Santa to the sharks.Martin Hansel, the chief curator at the German capital's Sea Life aquarium, donned a red cloak and hat over his diving gear Tuesday.Hansel fed sardines ...
Standard lamp shades that are mass manufactured are not the healthiest way to shade lighting in the home. Many new eco-friendly lampshades that are on the market today are created from organic cotton. The majority of producers that use organic cotton attach ...
Chinese holly may be cultivated in USDA zones 7 to 9, where it makes a suitable privacy screen, specimen plant or formal garden hedge. Prague Viburnum A member of the honeysuckle family, Prague viburnum (Viburnum x pragense) is a flowering shrub that ...
The air in homes and offices often contains harmful allergens like benzene and formaldehyde that can cause allergic reactions as well as long-term health problems. Typically used as a hanging plant, the golden pothos features dark green oval leaves with yellow and ...
It has been 50 years since I started working with perennials, and 43 years since I began planting up my garden, Foggy Bottom, in Bressingham, England. The first in Massachusetts in 1997 was followed by more in Michigan, Toronto, Peoria and Sacramento, ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Tiny, bloodthirsty and relentless, the insect pest that became a nightmare for millions of New Yorkers has found its way to Paris, spreading fear of an outbreak that could turn into the ultimate tourism-killer.Bed bugs, known in French as ...
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