Latest News for: 1900s

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An Italian family settled in America in the early 1900s; generations later, their family pepper still features in traditional recipes

The Times of India 03 Oct 2026
The variety came to America with relatives whose roots were in Italy in the early 1900s, and its seeds were eventually passed down through the family rather than replaced with newer varieties.
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Garber dinner theater to present 1900s race car driving comedy

Lebanon Reporter 30 Sep 2026
Expect twists and turns this October in downtown Garber when Garber Community Theater presents its interactive fall melodrama “Dangerous Curves Ahead.” ... .
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In the early 1900s, a United States plant explorer tested Japanese kudzu near Washington, D.C.; later promoted for soil protection, the “wonder plant” spread across millions of acres of the South

The Times of India 29 Sep 2026
Kudzu was no accident of nature. federal agencies promoted it and paid for it, and the evidence shows an ecological impact that is real but smaller than the legend suggests ... Fairchild, however, grew wary of it ... E ... Now get your AI Quotient ... .
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Then and now: The staff and students at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh recreate pictures from 1900s

The Scotsman 25 Sep 2026
The photo series was captured as the Palm Houses near completion of the most ambitious restoration and development programme in the Garden's 356-year history ....
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Hawaii introduced banana poka in the early 1900s for its edible fruit and ornamental flowers: Birds scattered their seeds, and it eventually climbed into rainforests, where it now smothers trees beneath dense curtains of vegetation

The Times of India 09 Jul 2026
Banana poka was introduced to Hawaiʻi in the 1920s as an ornamental, not in the late 19th century ... Currently, however, the plant is spreading across the native Hawaiian forests, invading the forest canopies with dense curtains of vegetation ... .
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California accidentally imported Argentine ants in the early 1900s, but the invasive insects now protect aphids across citrus orchards, allowing sap-sucking pests to multiply and damage millions of dollars' worth of fruit each year

The Times of India 09 Jul 2026
Citrus fruit is a common part of many diets ... The trouble started back in the early 1900s when a tiny, unassuming creature accidentally arrived on the shores of California ... This association can cost citrus growers significant money each year ... .
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Australia's Christmas Island in the early 1900s was accidentally invaded by yellow crazy ants arriving in cargo shipments, but the insects went on to kill more than 15 million red crabs, allowing rainforest trees to decline and permanently reshaping the island's forests

The Times of India 09 Jul 2026
For decades, Christmas Island has been known for a remarkable wildlife event ... It is believed that they got to Christmas Island sometime between 1915 and 1934 as stowaways in shipping containers ... The result was a cascade of ecological effects ... .
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Spain has relied on Aleppo pine for reforestation since the mid-1900s, but scientists now say drought-hardy argan trees restore soil just as well and may survive future climates better

The Times of India 08 Jul 2026
For decades, Aleppo pine has been the backbone of Spain’s reforestation efforts as it has helped in stabilising degraded landscapes across the country’s dry Mediterranean regions ... .
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The United States in the early 1900s rounded up the last remaining wild American bison after commercial hunting reduced the species to only a few hundred animals; today, hundreds of thousands once again roam protected lands

The Times of India 08 Jul 2026
By the early 1900s, all of the surviving wild bison were captured and protected, and with careful management programs, the herd was restored.Even though today almost all of the bison are part of ...
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Israel in the early 1900s planted millions of pine trees to green barren hills, but ecologists later found many native Mediterranean habitats had disappeared beneath them

The Times of India 03 Jul 2026
In thinking about the thick forests that dot the hills around Jerusalem or traversing the rolling green hills of Galilee, we tend to envision the success story of an environmentally conscious effort ... Improvement of the landscape vs ... .
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