For thousands of years, the date palm was a staple crop. In the Kingdom of Judea it was a source of food, shelter, medicine, and shade. But the plant went extinct due to waves of conquest and intentional destruction. But now, after 2,000 years, the Judean date palm is back and the sweet ancient fruit has been harvested once again.

Today the Celo blockchain announced the Climate Collective to tokenize rainforests and other similar assets. Over the next four years, it's proposing to invest as much as 40% of the Celo reserve, which underpins the Celo dollar and Euro stablecoins in tokenized rainforests. Celo's cryptocurrency has some high profile investors.

image-51]Data from satellite sensors show that during the Northern Hemisphere's growing season, the Midwest region of the United States boasts more photosynthetic activity than any other spot on Earth, according to NASA and university scientists. Healthy plants convert light to energy via photosynthesis, but chlorophyll also emits a fraction of absorbed light as fluorescent glow that is invisible to the naked eye.

Panic An unusual number of birds are suddenly going blind and dying in the area around Washington DC, puzzling wildlife experts. DC resident Alexandra Dimsdale found a young grackle stumbling around outside her home on Saturday. After taking it to City Wildlife, a rehabilitation centre in the northwest part of the capital, a member of staff told her there was nothing they could do.

Much remains unknown to scientists about the era immediately following the big bang, when the universe was hot, dense, and devoid of spiral galaxies like our modern Milky Way. Consequently, it's difficult to pin down when the first complex galaxies were born. But we're beginning to close this cosmic gap of empirical darkness.

The asteroid Apophis, the potentially hazardous space rock due to pass close to Earth next month, has been photographed by a ground-based telescope project. The image was captured by the Elena robotic telescope unit, which took a single exposure shot of the sky lasting 300 seconds.

With more than a month still to go in the fire season, the government announced a large-scale use of military assets, a deployment not seen since World War II. HASTINGS, Australia - The evacuees walked down the gangway of the giant naval vessel to the dock, each carrying just a few items of luggage.

Remember those Amazon Forest Fires that dominated the news until Hurricane Dorian broke the second seal of the apocalypse? It turns out that "man" was responsible for at least a few of those fires after all. Well, the four men who set the fire. Four members of an NGO have been arrested for starting fires ...