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The Great Outdoors: Office Space Goes Green and Open-Air

This fun installation is part art, part social commentary, and all eco-friendly. Designers moved an entire office outdoors and took "green" to the extreme!

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7 Wonders of the Plant World: Bizarre Blooms

These 7 flowers represent the world's largest, smallest, deadliest and smelliest, from prehistoric desert blooms to lilies that stand nearly 10 feet tall.

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Breathe Easy: Building Concept Cleanses Dirty City Air

Could this concept help NYC clean up its air? Plant-filled bubbles would form an air-purifying wall enclosing a dynamic public space.

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7 Carnivorous Wonders of the Plant World

From an aquatic plant that sucks tadpoles into 'bladder traps' to pitcher plants that eat mice or survive on poo, these 7 carnivorous plants are truly amazing.

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Acoustic Botany: Nature's Music Produced Scientifically

Artist David Benque explores humans' aesthetic relationship with nature in this intriguing conceptual art project: a genetically engineered musical garden.

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Tortured Trees: Brutal Bonsai Bondage Art Series

Chinese artist Shen Shaomin likens the "brutal, cruel" process of creating bonsai trees to barbaric surgery and the archaic tradition of foot-binding.

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Deadwood: 30 Scary, Creepy & Bizarre Trees

Trees can be beautiful and majestic, but these 30 scary trees show nature's other, darker side.. and you'd better hope their bark is worse than their bite!

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A Look Inside: Spectacular X-Ray Nature Photography

How often do we think about the beautiful complexity of plants? This X-ray art gives us a glimpse inside everyday objects for an unconventional view.

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Literal Lawn Chairs: Grass Sofas Brighten up British Summer

With families spending so much of their summer indoors, the National Trust has created some unique outdoor furniture to entice Brits to relax in the sun.

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Surprise Finds: 10 Strange Yet Exciting New Species

A recent top 10 new species list has it all, including a weird, rat-eating plant, head-spinning frogfish, sexually-suggestive fungus and much more.

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No Green Thumb? 13 Healthy Hard-to-Kill Houseplants

Indoor gardening can be easy even if you tend to kill every plant you touch - really! Just choose from these 13 tough houseplants, which can withstand neglect.

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Captivating Creatures: 12 Spectacular New Species

A long-nosed frog, a bug-eating sea slug and a bioluminescent worm that drops glowing bombs are among 12 amazing recently discovered species.

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Eco-Graffiti: 10 Guerilla Garden-Inspired Artists That Respect Mother Nature

Make a statement about the environment and society without harming a hair on Mother Nature’s head. With eco-graffiti, you can express yourself without breaking the law!

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Growing Green Art Made from Marvelous Moss

Moss makes for an unusual, tactile and eye-catching medium in art and design including jewelry, bath mats, graffiti and even shoes.

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Anything But Stony: Lovely Living Moss Sculptures

Most sculptures are cold, lifeless stone. But this sculptor adds touches of living green moss to make his sculptures come alive: a fusion of art and gardening.

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