Captain Scott’s Lost Photographs – Slide Show – NYTimes.com
Captain Scott’s Lost Photographs – Slide Show – NYTimes.com.
Alys Fowler: Sweet peas | Life and style | The Guardian
They may be easy to germinate, but to get long stems and lovely blooms takes dedication. Photographs: Gap Photos
I love a bunch of sweet peas. There is something satisfying about a vase of them. The flirty rippled Spencers, the old fashioned grandifloras or the cupani varieties with their velvety dark colourings. But boy, it’s hard work to get there.
They may be easy to germinate, but to get long stems and lovely blooms takes dedication. You must create trenches of deep, rich soil, pinch and pluck away unnecessary appendages (the tendrils, for instance) to create perfect cordons, so that all the energy is concentrated into flowers. Then pick like mad to keep up production.
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Boom time for berries – Telegraph
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Boom time for berries – Telegraph.
For a really good fruiting year you need a whole set of circumstances. The first is that the previous autumn is warm and long, so that the fruiting wood has plenty of time to grow.
Then you need the previous winter to have been properly cold. A lot of fruit trees are programmed to only produce fruit after a truly cold winter. With the trend for warmer winters, this spark to fruit production has been lacking.
The cold also kills off huge numbers of the pests and parasites that can destroy the flower buds and the nascent fruit. It cleans the environment into which the new blossom will emerge.
Captain Scott: The Journey South – Telegraph
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Captain Scott: The Journey South – Telegraph.Anton Omelchenko stands at the end of the Barne Glacier on Ross Island, 2nd December 1911.
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Residents, Church Vie For History-Rich Russian Isles : NPR
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Residents, Church Vie For History-Rich Russian Isles : NPR.
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An old house in the small town in Solovki was originally built to house prisoners in the 1920s and 1930s.
When you look up “Volga tours” on the Internet, most advertise a quick St. Petersburg-to-Moscow trip, though technically neither city is on the Volga.
But the Volga is more than a river. It is an elaborate system of lakes, locks and manmade canals that links Russia’s two most famous cities. This network also reaches far to the north into the White Sea. For centuries, it was the shortest route to Europe and it became Russia’s main center of trade and defense.
EnlargeJohn Poole/NPRFather Porfiry is abbot of the newly restored monastery on Russia’s Solovetsky Islands, near the Arctic Circle. The Orthodox Church and local residents are fighting over who controls the future of the popular tourist destination, also known as Solovki.
The Solovetsky Islands, less than 100 miles from the Arctic Circle, have become a popular destination. Their history is dramatic — and that drama is still being played out.
For Russian tourists, the trip north to Solovki, as the islands are known, is worth the voyage. These remote islands sum up their country’s greatest achievements and its greatest tragedy.
Father Porfiry is abbot of the newly restored Solovetsky Monastery.
“For 500 years, this place reflected the genius and power of God. The Communist revolution was the story of a great fall. Now we have overcome all that and see the restoration of Russia and its spiritual life,” he says.
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Arctic sea ice shrinks to third lowest area on record
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Our grandchildren will know no Arctic.
Arctic sea ice shrinks to third lowest area on record
Arctic sea ice melted over the summer to cover the third smallest area on record, US researchers said Wednesday, warning global warming could leave the region ice free in the month of September 2030.
Last week, at the end of the spring and summer “melt season” in the Arctic, sea ice covered 4.76 million square kilometers (1.84 million square miles), the University of Colorado’s National Snow and Ice Data Center said in an annual report.
“This is only the third time in the satellite record that ice extent has fallen below five million square kilometers (1.93 million square miles), and all those occurrences have been within the past four years,” the report said.
A separate report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) found that in August, too, Arctic sea ice coverage was down sharply, covering an average of six million square kilometers (2.3 million square miles), or 22 percent below the average extent from 1979 to 2000.
The August coverage was the second lowest for Arctic sea ice since records began in 1979. Only 2007 saw a smaller area of the northern sea covered in ice in August, NOAA said.
The record low for Arctic sea ice cover at the end of the spring and summer “melt season” in September, was also in 2007, when ice covered just 4.13 million square kilometers (1.595 million square miles).
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10 Ancient Cave Dwellings You Can Visit (PHOTOS)
This 20-room apartment sits inside a limestone cliff.
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LandscapeOnline.com :: Article : LASN October 2010 Ordinances: Poisonous Plants
LandscapeOnline.com :: Article : LASN October 2010 Ordinances: Poisonous Plants.
Cancer caused by modern man as it was virtually non-existent in ancient world – Telegraph
Cancer caused by modern man as it was virtually non-existent in ancient world – Telegraph.
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