Preserving Singapore’s ‘Green Spine’ – Southeast Asia Real Time – WSJ …away from the crowds and noise is an unexpected sanctuary: a 26-kilometer, century-old defunct railway connecting Singapore to Malaysia, which environmental groups dream of turning into Singapore’s own version of New York’s High Line, the former elevated rail line that was converted into a [...]

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Hot Off the Press: Designer Plant Combinations Awarded, accomplished, and colorful author,  Scott Calhoun traveled the country searching for the freshest, most exciting plant groupings. He visited the gardens of top designers from coast to coast and chose more than 100 combinations to include in his photographic celebration. Riots of complementary colors, masses of grasses, [...]

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Tropics insects ‘face extinction’   Many tropical insects face extinction by the end of this century unless they adapt to the rising global temperatures predicted, US scientists have said. Researchers led by the University of Washington said insects in the tropics were much more sensitive to temperature changes than those [...]

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Warming threat worse in tropics – Los Angeles Times   Scientists say many species can’t tolerate small temperature rises. From the Associated Press 11:47 AM PDT, May 5, 2008 WASHINGTON — While global warming is expected to be strongest at the poles, it may be an even greater threat to species living in the tropics, [...]

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No Need to Fly South to See Blossoms in Winter – New York Times Annotated   Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania.   United States Botanical Garden (usbg.gov) in Washington   Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (gardnermuseum.org)   Wave Hill (wavehill.org) an estate turned public garden in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. [...]

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