Category: eucalyptus

Monarch Butterflies Making Small Comeback Despite Cold Weather, Torrential Rains

PISMO BEACH, Calif.—The monarch butterflies danced like red autumn leaves in the breeze among the treetops high above California’s Pismo Beach Monarch Garden Grove on Jan. 18. It took a lot of work to spot them huddled in two large clusters hidden within the tall eucalyptus, basking in the late afternoon sun. The monarchs had…


Nature Has Healing Properties for Australia’s Bushfire Stricken Forests

Australian eucalypt forests are resilient to bushfires, with 70 percent of plants found to be able to make it through the infernos due to defence mechanisms developed over millions of years, a new study has found. Ecologist Patrick Norman and four other scientists based at Griffith University and Australian National University conducted a scientific research…