Work to clear vegetation and remove dead, dying and hazardous trees around the A27 in East and West Sussex will begin on Monday 09 November for six weeks. The vegetation and tree clearance, between Pevensey and Havant, is being carried out to maintain safety for all road users and adjacent landowners.  Plans for any replanting will

Shimla: Global warming models project a temperature rise of 4 to 5 degree Celsius over north western India by end of the century which would have devastating impacts on existing vegetation across the Himalayan states of Jammu & Kashmir, Uttrakhand and Himachal Pradesh stated DH Ravindranath, a leading scientist. DH Ravindranath, the noted scientist from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore ...

... job in some San Francisco backyard. But the cognitive dissonance of this sentence singing the praises of their paving job cracks me up:This asserts the valued presence of the carbon-absorbing tree and its green canopy overhead, while allowing for a maximum of usable surface area below free of other vegetation.In other news, France'd be great, if it weren't for the French. Deformscape

Firefighters quickly contained a vegetation fire off Highway 60 in Moreno Valley this afternoon. Twenty-four firefighters responded to a fire near Gilman Springs Road and Eucalyptus Avenue that was reported at 1.47 p.m., Riverside County Fire Capt. Laura Germany said. It was contained by 2:15 p.m. after burning about 3 acres. Six engines and a truck company fought the blaze. Gilman Springs, a ...

... local press featured objections to the destructive slashing (rather than pruning) of roadside vegetation, which we had also noticed on the way to Toodyay. John's just been up in the Central West & ... are entering wildflower country" (or something along those lines). There are no wildflowers, because there is no vegetation! A quarter of a century ago, I worked on the wheatbins at Mingenew ...

The stench of rotting vegetation is floating through Mission Viejo, reports the OC Register. You can stop with the sideways glances--low temps and strong winds last week created conditions for a nasty-smelling algae bloom in the Upper Oso Reservoir. The paper wants to map the spread of the smell, and one commenter has made lemonade out of stinky algae: "They should send the Real Housewives of ...