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Liquid3. Liquid 3 (also known as Liquid Trees) is a clean energy photobioreactor project designed to replace the function of trees in heavily polluted urban areas where planting and growing real vegetation is not viable. The project was designed by the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research at the University of Belgrade. The United Nations ...
Taiga or tayga (/ ˈtaɪɡə / TY-gə; Russian: тайга́), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches. The taiga or boreal forest is the world's largest land biome. [ 1 ]
Precipitation hardening, also called age hardening or particle hardening, is a heat treatment technique used to increase the yield strength of malleable materials, including most structural alloys of aluminium, magnesium, nickel, titanium, and some steels, stainless steels, and duplex stainless steel. In superalloys, it is known to cause yield ...
Liquidambar styraciflua is a medium-sized to large tree, growing anywhere from 15–20 m (50–70 ft) in cultivation and up to 45 m (150 ft) in the wild, [14] with a trunk up 60–90 cm (2–3 ft) in diameter, on average. [15] Trees may live to 400 years. [16] The tree is a symmetrical shape and crowns into an egg shape when the branches get ...
This high level of precipitation often results in poor soils due to leaching of soluble nutrients in the ground. Tropical rainforests exhibit high levels of biodiversity. Around 40% to 75% of all biotic species are indigenous to the rainforests. [6] Rainforests are home to half of all the living animal and plant species on the planet. [7]
The term caliche is borrowed from Spanish and is originally from the Latin word calx, meaning lime. [ 1 ] Caliche is generally light-colored but can range from white to light pink to reddish-brown, depending on the minerals present. Caliche is a mark of older landscapes. It generally occurs on or very near the surface.
General Sherman appears to be holding up well (not bad for a 2,200-year-old), but because of pests and climate change, the largest tree in the world needs a checkup
A defining factor of temperate deciduous forests is their leaf loss during the transition from fall to winter, an adaptation that arose as a solution for the low sunlight conditions and bitter cold temperatures. [ 1 ] In these forests, winter is a time of dormancy for plants, [ 8 ] when broadleaf deciduous trees conserve energy and prevent ...