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What Lurks in a Drowned Forest in Alabama?
The next miracle drug might be hiding in a primeval undersea forest.
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Hike With Me… In The Forest | E01 | Spring Edition
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Apps that plant trees are booming. But are they helping?
There are dozens of apps that promise to plant trees in exchange for your usage, but critics say not all of them are making a positive impact on the climate.
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Drones are setting down roots in wildfire-scarred landscapes
Tree-planting drones take flight after devastating wildfires.
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The world’s forests do more than just store carbon, new research finds
New data suggests forests help keep the Earth at least half of a degree cooler, protecting us from the effects of climate crisis
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So You Want to Bury A Body: Grave Digging for Writers
There comes a time in most people’s lives, certainly in most writers lives, when they’ll need to start thinking about how to bury a body. A dead body that is. It can’t be that hard, can it? After all, we’ve seen them do it on TV. A brief shot of a spade (or is it a shovel?) in action, a brief cut in the film, and the body is next to the grave ready to be disposed of. The sides of the grave are always nice and neat and self-supporting as well, so how hard can it be?
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Climate crisis: Amazon rainforest tipping point is looming, data shows
Analysis of satellite observations show forest is losing stability with ‘profound’ global implications
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The Oldest Tree in the World | Trees Atlanta
The Oldest Tree in the World by Summer Price We all know trees can live really long lives. It’s no surprise that they typically live longer than humans and everything else on the planet. Trees can live anywhere from less than 100 years to more than a few thousand years depending on the species...
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Global count estimates Earth has 73,000 tree species – 14% more than reported
There are an estimated 73,300 species of tree on Earth, 9,000 of which have yet to be discovered, according to a global count of tree species by thousands of researchers who used second world war codebreaking techniques created at Bletchley Park to evaluate the number of unknown species.
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Global count estimates Earth has 73,000 tree species – 14% more than reported
Second world war codebreaking calculations used at Bletchley Park find 9,000 of those species are yet to be discovered
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California redwood forest returned to native tribal group
More than 500 acres of land where ancient redwoods stand on California's Lost Coast is being returned to the descendants of Native American tribes.
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Bonsai and the power of tiny trees
Max Falkowitz started the pandemic with little work and limited human contact, but through the art of bonsai, has found a sense of peace in the midst of a turbulent world.
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Old, Primeval Forests May Be a Powerful Tool to Fight Climate Change
Ecologists thought these trees had long been torn down in New England. Then Bob Leverett proved them wrong. I meet Bob Leverett in a small gravel parking lot at the end of a quiet residential road in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. We are at the Ice Glen trailhead, half a mile from a Mobil station, and Leverett, along with his wife, Monica Jakuc Leverett, is going to show me one of New England’s rare pockets of old-growth forest.
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More than 100 world leaders pledge to halt deforestation by 2030
Over 100 world leaders, representing 85 percent of the world’s forests, pledge to halt deforestation by end of the decade.
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Loved to death: Australian sandalwood is facing extinction in the wild
Wild sandalwood populations in Australia have been slowly collapsing for decades. New research found the Western Australian government has been warned repeatedly for a century.
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The surprising downsides to planting trillions of trees
Large tree-planting initiatives often fail — and some have even fueled deforestation. There’s a better way.
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Indigenous knowledge and the persistence of the 'wilderness' myth
Aboriginal people view so-called wilderness as sick, neglected land. This runs counter to the view of wilderness as pristine and healthy, which underpins non-Indigenous conservation efforts.
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The Long-Lost Tale of an 18th-Century Tsunami, as Told by Trees
Local evidence of the cataclysm has literally washed away over the years. But Oregon’s Douglas firs may have recorded clues deep in their tree rings.
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The World's Oldest Known Forest Was Not Like We Imagined, New Study Shows
The fossilized web of a 385-million-year-old root network has scientists reimagining what the world's first forests might once have looked like.
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A ‘rewilding revolution’: How 9 million trees reforested England
Plans for the future include a new 25-acre wood to remember those who've died during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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