plant life

It’s a sandy loam mixed with lightweight volcanic aggregate to provide the volume and moisture needed to support plant life while reducing the weight on the structure and allowing for easy drainage.

The way the rubbish was discarded at the sites endangered the "health of humans, animals and plant life", they added.

Yet if arborists use the chipped trees as mulch to support gardens, new trees or other plant life, they can still keep the carbon out of the air.

According to Dennhardt, the deer are messing with the rare animal and plant life on Catalina, which is part of an archipelago so biodiverse that it is often called North America’s Galápagos.

Like their terrestrial counterparts, aquaculture seed banks are meant to preserve genetic diversity in plant life for the future.