Regeneration

This year, Edinburgh began work on its fifteen-year regeneration project to transform its waterfront and provide its growing population with a new kind of living area.

In the case of stony or hard corals, these polyp conglomerates grow, die, and endlessly repeat the cycle over time, slowly laying the limestone foundation for coral reefs and giving shape to the familiar corals that reside there. Because of this cycle of growth, death, and regeneration among individual polyps, many coral colonies can live for a very long time.

Researchers are discovering clues at the cellular level that indicate human regeneration of lost body parts could be possible someday.

Spring is a time of rebirth and regeneration.

According to the Oregon State announcement, researchers documented the impact of cougars and wolves on the regeneration of forests and other flora around streams and rivers in Yellowstone National Park.

Previous work in tissue regeneration involved a laborious process of inserting specific genes into stem cells created from skin cells, then infusing the transformed cells into the body to create healthy tissue.

The conversion of so many old industrial buildings into living quarters was a major factor in the regeneration.

Iversen holds that these changes indicate the arrival of farmers, the phase of Landnam or land occupation, that the charcoal comes from clearance fires; that herbaceous pollen suggests the opening-up of the land; cereals, fields; the plantains, weeds; and birch and hazel, regeneration of the forests after the exhaustion of the plot.

But the key thing that excites Jolliffe about biochar is that it avoids waste and it can actually give something back to the environment. "The nice thing is that the biochar doesn't just sit there in a heap," she says. "It's used for soil regeneration. You can spread it on the land and it can not only enhance the soil's capacity to manage moisture, but it also acts as a fertiliser.

The standard ring of regeneration restores one point of damage per turn (and will eventually replace lost limbs or organs).