Oldfield told CNN that magnolias' plight was merely one example of how environmental degradation was threatening plant life.
Already 200, 000 eco-tourists a year flock to see the island's towering 1, 000-to-7, 200-year-old cedars, phantasmagoric plant life and hordes of monkeys.
The group studied so-called "C3" plants, the most prevalent type of plant life on Earth for the past 400 million years.
It was all reflected in the smooth surface of the water, coloured a coffee-black by tannins released from decaying plant life below.
Scientists will eventually find widespread evidence of simple, microbial life, they theorized, but complex animal or plant life will prove extremely rare.
The Smithsonian's Fitzhugh says ancient plant life in the hunting areas may tell us what the climate was like thousands of years ago.
He was wearing brown moleskin pants, a green cardigan sweater, and a plaid shirt with some sort of plant life on the placket.
The exposed cliffs and slopes, devoid of plant life, clearly show the layers of rock and soil that have made this region such a geological playground.
The court heard how the spills saw untreated sewage engulf areas around the loch, "smothering" plant life and starving the surrounding water of oxygen.
The problem at the moment is the "heavy metal residue", as it is a danger for plant life and can get into rivers, he says.
The gardens, inhabited by plant life from different biomes around the world, is the main attraction, but they are only part of the Phipps story.
The Osa Peninsula is a wildlife treasure trove, a black sand and blue skies paradise with an abundance of exotic animals, insects and plant life.
The report said that that up to 20 percent of those areas had already suffered some loss of plant life or economic use as a consequence of desertification.
The men will be retired professionals: doctors, lawyers, engineers, stockbrokers, interested in Arctic exploration, polar bears, archeology, birds, Inuit crafts, perhaps even Vikings or plant life or geology.
Hardly anything can grow there due to the impossibly cold climate and any plant life that manages to sprout up out of the ground is rare and quite determined.
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This is a golden age for plant life, but the alarmists and their media allies want us to forget all that and instead focus on the asserted global warming allergy crisis.
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Known as the driest, highest desert in the world, the Atacama Desert is full of surprises: mountains, volcanoes, salt flats, geysers, wetlands, hot springs and an abundance of animal and plant life.
The lakes have filled back up, the plant life is so green it's dazzling to behold, and neighbors are boasting to each other across the fence how low their water bills are.
Within their bodies they harbor highly productive algae -- a form of marine plant life -- that can "fix" carbon, use the energy of the sun to conduct photosynthesis and produce sugars.
It turns out that these are all climate-driven employment areas, too -- trends that will grow in demand as climates change because our urban plant life will have greater demands placed on it.
"We've lost 17 percent of all plant life in the Atlantic, 26 percent in the North Pacific and in the sub-tropical oceans 50 percent or more of plant life has disappeared, " he said.
This has led to an increase in the amount of heather and purple-moor grass, and less grassy areas, "leading to a more diverse mix of plant life which is good news for wildlife".
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Maybe not human life, but abundant plant life.
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Sunk just off Key West , an island in the Straits of Florida, in 2009, the Vandenberg is the second-largest artificial reef in the world, attracting a diverse range of marine animals and plant life.
As in the Gulf, the oil deposits were created during a period of flourishing plant life 80 million years ago, when rivers draining Africa and South America dumped sediments into the narrow and shallow sea then separating the two continents.
Along with neighbouring Banff, Jasper is a Unesco World Heritage site, recognised for its beauty, animal and plant life, and staggering variety of landscapes, including glaciers, alpine meadows, steaming hot springs, cerulean lakes and some of the highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains.
Couple such capability with new satellite measurements (America's Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 is due to launch in a few years) and better measurements of the mass of plant life in forests and other ecosystems, and the planet's greenhouse-gas credits and debits will surely be understood far better.
But given the zeal of global warming alarmists and their media allies to paint anything and everything associated with global warming as a harbinger of doom and gloom, we are unlikely to see even a single news article this spring pointing out how global warming is benefiting plant life as a whole.
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Rather than fight googly-eyed martians, however, you help spread life to the Red Planet, planting a variety of seeds which in turn grow a variety of plant-life, and awaken other forms of life, as you traverse the depths.
So for all the wonderful benefits of better plant-life conditions, there will be a relatively small negative side effect.
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