'In her prime': Rare blooming of palm trees in Rio

An extraordinary botanical spectacle is drawing crowds in Rio de Janeiro: several talipot palm trees, planted more than six ...

Rare palm trees in Rio de Janeiro finally bloom for first and only time after six decades

In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a crop of imported palms is flowering for the first and only time after being planted by renowned ...

Juju who? Meet a rare but delicious exotic you can easily grow at home

Upcoming Bonita Springs fruit sale offers easy-to-grow exotica, including the delicious, nutritious jujube - a subtropical ...
The Press-Enterprise on MSN

It’s harvest time at Riverside’s 150-year-old parent navel orange tree

Driving west Friday morning on Riverside’s Arlington Avenue, I see the two-story boxy shape, a peak at the top, from a block away. Momentarily I think it’s a church. Then I recognize what I’m seeing.
Daily Mail on MSN

Rare palm trees bloom once in a lifetime

A spectacular and bittersweet natural phenomenon has transformed the landscape of Rio de Janeiro these days as rare Talipot ...
The Business Journals

Local retailer's 11-year quest yields 'most magical' Christmas trees

Chris Heller, the co-owner of the Margaret Cleveland, stands with some of the 140 "sculptural" Silvertips after a cross-country journey to Baltimore last week ...
Mongabay

Botanists decode secret life of rare plants to ensure reintroduction success

Working with South African daisies, Colombian magnolias and Philippine coffee trees, botanists the world over are discovering the secrets to bringing extremely rare and threatened plants back from the ...
Medical Xpress

AI learns from the tree of life to support rare disease diagnosis

Researchers have created an artificial intelligence model that can identify which mutations in human proteins are most likely to cause disease, even when those mutations have never been seen before in ...
The New York Times

An Auto Holy Grail: Motors That Don’t Rely on Chinese Rare Earths

Weary of being captive to geopolitics, car companies are looking for ways to replace powerful rare-earth magnets in electric motors. BMW is using motors without ...
Forbes

Meet The Tree That Produces The Only True Blue Fruit On The Planet. Hint: It’s Not Actually Blue

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The quandong’s fruit appear intensely blue, but without ...
IEEE

IoT-Assisted AI Framework for Preserving Biodiversity: Monitoring Rare Trees in Dynamic Forest Ecosystems

The preservation of biodiversity, particularly the monitoring of rare tree species in dynamic forest ecosystems, presents significant challenges due to the complexities in detecting and analyzing ...
Reuters

West scrambles to fill heavy rare earth gap as China rivalry deepens

LONDON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The West's push to build a home-grown magnets supply chain to reduce its reliance on China - led by massive U.S. backing for Nevada-based MP Materials - is running into a ...