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Christmas cacti can live in your house for over 100 years and be passed from generation to generation, blooming beautiful red flowers ever holiday season

Thousands of tourists travel to see the “tree of longevity” in all its golden glory each year

One elderly woman’s courage has inspired hundreds of other senior citizens to speak out about their loneliness and isolation and thousands of younger people to reach out to them

Owl appears to “adopt” duckling after it hatches in her nest

Frances’s new “green roof” law is cooling city streets, cutting heating and air conditioning costs, reducing water and air pollution, providing local, organic food and ecosystems for birds, bees and hundreds of other species

We are now living in the era of flying “killer robots” armed with AK 47s and facial recognition technology

There is no plant source of DHA, a fatty acid “necessary for higher intelligence”

There are steep costs to Costco’s cheap chicken, including antibiotic-resistant urinary infections in humans, unthinkable cruelty to animals and giant dead zones in our oceans

Mushroom-foam is as cheap as Styrofoam, requires no fossil fuel, and creates no plastic pollution, biodegrading in your garden in just a couple of weeks

The Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts a “repeat of last winter’s record-breaking extremes,” including heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures nationwide