<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Plants: News &amp; Videos about Plants - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Plants</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Plants from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:14:36 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Plants: News &amp; Videos about Plants - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Plants</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Plants from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Barter boom: Swapping sex toys for plumbing</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/13/smallbusiness/small_business_barter_boom/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/13/smallbusiness/small_business_barter_boom/index.htm</guid><description>Short on cash? 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Their trunks, branches, roots and twigs are all more than capable of enduring a winter's worth of freezing temperatures, snow, sleet and hail. Their leaves, though? 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Trees</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1826067,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1826067,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The sabal palm, Florida's state tree, is under attack by a microscopic killer that has scientists stumped</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Study: Warming Chases Plants Uphill</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1818348,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1818348,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Faced with global warming, plants are heading for the hills. A study of 171 forest species in Western Europe shows that most of them are shifting their favored locations to higher, cooler spots</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A walk through the treetops</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/06/04/Kew.walkway/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/06/04/Kew.walkway/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>London's Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew recently opened an attraction that gives visitors the chance to walk among the treetops and examine tree canopies from a new perspective.</description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Restaurants' triple serving of recession</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/09/news/economy/restaurants/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/09/news/economy/restaurants/index.htm</guid><description>Jeannie Felts Buckner is caught in a recession triple squeeze.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Killings of mountain gorillas in Congo prompt U.N. probe</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/07/27/congo.gorillas/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/07/27/congo.gorillas/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The shooting deaths of four mountain gorillas -- three females and an alpha male silverback -- are prompting a United Nations agency to send a mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Algae: 'The ultimate in renewable energy'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/01/algae.oil/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/01/algae.oil/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Texas may be best known for "Big Oil." But the oil that could some day make a dent in the country's use of fossil fuels is small. Microscopic, in fact: algae. Literally and figuratively, this is green fuel.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Add the right 'bones' to your garden</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/homestyle/03/28/foundation.planting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/homestyle/03/28/foundation.planting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The idea is simple: Foundation plants should enhance your home, make it more welcoming, and tie it to the surrounding landscape. Unfortunately, these house-hugging plantings frequently consist of stiff evergreen shrubs that do little for the house they adorn. Even worse, they're often sheared into something closer to green loaves of bread than to anything found in nature. </description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brighten your garden without the digging, weed pulling</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/homestyle/03/20/toh.planting.pots/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/homestyle/03/20/toh.planting.pots/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Containers allow you to garden where there's no ground to till, brightening up the patios, porches, decks, and stoops where we linger on long summer days. </description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rare pygmy hippos caught on camera</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/10/pygmy.hippos/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/10/pygmy.hippos/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>An endangered and secretive animal rarely seen in the wild has been caught on camera in West Africa. </description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Biofuels: 'Green gold' or problems untold?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/02/24/eco.biofuels/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/02/24/eco.biofuels/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>No subject appears to divide as many people in the climate change arena as biofuels. Their potential to positively impact greenhouse gas emissions is undoubtedly enormous. </description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>True or False: Trees</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/10/eco.myth.trees/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/10/eco.myth.trees/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>True or False: More carbon dioxide is good news for trees as it will boost growth levels.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Virginia's capital merry and bright</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/getaways/12/13/richmond.virginia/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/getaways/12/13/richmond.virginia/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Days and nights in Richmond, Virginia, sparkle during December more than a socialite draped in jewels. Legions of stringed lights hang like tinsel on trees. Candy-colored bulbs decorate foliage at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. And James River plantations treat guests to a colonial-style Christmas. From candlelight tours to light shows, this town offers more weekend choices than a travel agent's checklist.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Topical waters </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/11/23/fsummit.climate.ironfertilization/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/11/23/fsummit.climate.ironfertilization/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Research published last month paints an increasingly gloomy picture of the accelerating rate of climate change, raising genuine fears that efforts to combat carbon emissions may already be too late to restrict seismic changes in the earth's temperatures.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Dallas takes big-city fun downtown </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/getaways/10/03/dallas/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/getaways/10/03/dallas/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Dallas has long been a sociological curiosity. With its mix of sweeping ranches and high-end shopping, it's sort of a "country meets culture" destination. And you don't have to drive all over the metroplex (as the locals call the Dallas-Fort Worth area) to have a good time. 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But something seems off.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Leaf-peeping planner</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/ADVISOR/09/21/leafpeep.planner/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/ADVISOR/09/21/leafpeep.planner/index.html</guid><description>Get the real deal with this guide to hotel packages, happenings, and resources for making the most of fall foliage season across the U.S.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Best seaside drives</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/09/21/seaside.drives/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/09/21/seaside.drives/index.html</guid><description>There's nothing quite as breathtaking as a scenic drive during the fall, when the air feels crisp and colors abound. But we urge you to drive a route Coastal Living--style. 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"It might save your life."</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Police thwarted in search for suspect in family's slaying</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/02/indianapolis.killings/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/02/indianapolis.killings/index.html</guid><description>Indianapolis police came up empty Friday night after surrounding a house where they suspected the primary suspect in the slayings of seven people was holed up, a police spokesman said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Here Comes the Neighborhood</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2005/11/01/8360985/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2005/11/01/8360985/index.htm</guid><description>Eco-Friendly developer Jonathan Rose, 53, has almost completed Highlands' Garden Village, a $102 million, 27-acre property ten minutes from downtown Denver. About 650 residents occupy 306 units, ra...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Making charity the focus of retirement</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/05/retirement/dreamretire_loveit2_0511/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/05/retirement/dreamretire_loveit2_0511/index.htm</guid><description>"The most important thing in my life right now is to be part of the answer," says Fred</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>If you go: Fall foliage activities</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/09/08/if.you.go/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/09/08/if.you.go/index.html</guid><description>Resources to help you plan your leaf-peeping adventures:</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Truly Sticky App</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/09/01/8356490/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/09/01/8356490/index.htm</guid><description>Management consultants talk about the big white elephant in the room, but for designers Scott Flora and Jerinne Neils, it was a big white wall. In 2001 the couple moved into a loft in Los Angeles, ...</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gardens glow amid greenhouse glass</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/07/14/kew.chihuly/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/07/14/kew.chihuly/index.html</guid><description>A stunning exhibition of glass created by renowned American artist Dale Chihuly has gone on display against the backdrop of London's Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Island's koalas face sterilization</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/23/koalas.cull/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/23/koalas.cull/index.html</guid><description>Almost 8000 koalas will be sterilized on Australia's Kangaroo Island over the next four years in a bid to protect the native vegetation from being destroyed.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 00:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Light ideas promote easy sleeping</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/01/24/spark.light/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/01/24/spark.light/index.html</guid><description>Imagine a duvet cover and pillow that gradually light up as you wake up in the morning.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:44:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Alien invaders, a global environment under attack</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/12/30/invasive.species/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/12/30/invasive.species/index.html</guid><description>They're not from the sci-fi show "X-Files," but scientists are sounding the alarm that aliens have invaded the planet.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2004 02:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Best bets for fall foliage</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/29/pf/goodlife/foliage/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/29/pf/goodlife/foliage/index.htm</guid><description>In the fall, there's a yin and yang to life in New England. Every year, the foliage steals your heart, then baseball breaks it.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sun, sand, surf and movies</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/28/hawaii.movies/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/28/hawaii.movies/index.html</guid><description>With exquisite coastlines and lush foliage, the Hawaiian islands have long been Hollywood's tropical backlot and the stage for more than 200 major feature films.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Toyota's Green Giant The automaker brings the hybrid car mentality home with its California sales campus, one of the largest env</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/05/01/368267/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/05/01/368267/index.htm</guid><description>Having a green office means more than just recycling your memos and turning off your computer at the end of the day. As Toyota proves with its new $87 million sales campus, environmentalism starts ...</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2004 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kids' Hopes Personal Tragedy Spurs One Woman To Take Action</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/12/01/354903/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/12/01/354903/index.htm</guid><description>Justine Stamen, 33, has seen tragedy up close. In 1988 her best friend, Teak Dyer, was murdered on the eve of her high school graduation. Then in 1997, DeWitt White, who'd been her student at an ac...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2003 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Phoenix, Arizona</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2002/10/15/pf/saving/travel/bpvac_phoenix/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2002/10/15/pf/saving/travel/bpvac_phoenix/index.htm</guid><description>When you think of Phoenix, you probably think of sprawl, lots of purple and turquoise, and phrases like, Yes, but it's a dry heat. But there's more to the city than meets the eye: Within an hour's drive are natural and historic attractions that make Phoenix the perfect base for a winter vacation in the desert.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2002 04:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>October Travel</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/10/01/266496/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/10/01/266496/index.htm</guid><description>Head to Canada for fall foliage. With the exchange rate continuing to favor U.S. travelers, you can watch nature's fireworks at a discount. A double room at Quebec's Cheribourg Resort (800-567-6132...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 1999 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>From Intel to the Amazon Gordon Moore's Incredible Journey</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/04/26/258760/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/04/26/258760/index.htm</guid><description>There are seven of us dragging our luggage through the airport in Rio de Janeiro, preparing to board the first of three planes that will eventually deposit us on a bumpy grass landing strip in the ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 1999 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Diana's Low-Fat Legacy</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/05/11/242047/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/05/11/242047/index.htm</guid><description>How cheesy. The first product to earn the official logo of the Diana, Princess of Wales, Memorial Fund is a tub of margarine. A spokeswoman for The Memorial Fund (which is sniffy about capitalizing...</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 1998 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE RUBBER INDUSTRY'S BIOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/08/04/229714/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/08/04/229714/index.htm</guid><description>The day that haunts the rubber industry will dawn like any other. The sun, rising the length of Asia, slowly burns away the haze from the plantations along the South China Sea that are the source o...</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 1997 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW TO PLAN A GARDEN THAT WILL GROW THE BIGGEST             BLOOMS FOR YOUR BUCK</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/03/01/201999/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/03/01/201999/index.htm</guid><description>If this spring your fancy is turning to tomato seeds and trowels, join the club. According to a recent Gallup survey, gardening now shares top billing with swimming and walking as one of the three ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 1995 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>WHAT A ZOO CAN TEACH YOU </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/05/18/76423/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/05/18/76423/index.htm</guid><description>The Zoological Society of San Diego has done more than most businesses to transform itself into a 21st-century organization. It deserves to be seen for its management as well as for its spectacular...</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 1992 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>LIGHTS! CAMERAS! PORTFOLIOS!</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/03/27/71769/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/03/27/71769/index.htm</guid><description>Here's the script. Young man meets Wall Street. Scores big as a money manager. Eventually controls $1.3 billion in assets, with an average annual return of 32% since 1967. He loves the movies. So h...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 1989 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>NEW WAY TO MAKE NEW PRODUCTS A year-old biotech company has found out how to create complex chemicals right inside plant cells. </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/09/26/71049/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/09/26/71049/index.htm</guid><description>THOSE THREE intent young scientists in the photograph have achieved a rare and potentially highly profitable feat: a sudden leap forward that changes something that couldn't be done into a commerci...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Greenhouse blues</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/06/20/70677/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/06/20/70677/index.htm</guid><description>People on Wall Street know Michael Steinhardt, 47, as an astute money manager who oversees more than $1 billion. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden knows him as a gardening enthusiast who recently contrib...</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>GARDENING FOR GOURMETS Sampled a Sicilian artichoke lately? Or a tomatillo? Adventurous epicures are raising them at home.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/06/09/67651/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/06/09/67651/index.htm</guid><description>The fitness boom and America's longripening affair with gourmet food are combining to give new zest to gardening, the most popular outdoor leisure activity in the U.S. Vegetable gardening occupies ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 1986 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>TEST-TUBE PLANTS HIT PAY DIRT Exotic genetic-engineering techniques were supposed to remake agriculture. But shrewd businessmen-</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/02/66387/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/02/66387/index.htm</guid><description>AGRICULTURAL biotechnology is finally emerging from a miasma of wild-eyed claims and promises that have swathed it in recent years. After researchers at the Max Planck Institute in West Germany suc...</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 1985 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>