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Is Australia the world's most environmentally unfriendly country?
In Western Australia, endangered great white sharks are being slaughtered. In Queensland, dredging spoil is to be dumped on the Great Barrier Reef. In Tasmania, ancient forests - harbouring some of the planet's tallest trees - are in danger of being stripped of their World Heritage listing. Australians could be forgiven for wondering if the federal government they elected last September is the most conservation-hostile in living memory.
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NASA Soon Able to 3D Print Trees
Rothschild has been a major influencing figure in helping to bring synthetic biology to NASA. Together, they are looking to use a method of 3D bioprinting to culture cells which will excrete non-living material. An example of this is wood, or even meat. Rothschild and Gentry are specifically working with NASA to figure out how to generate wood in space.
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How salmon help keep a huge rainforest thriving
The world’s largest temperate rainforest owes its survival to an unlikely source – the salmon spawning in its rivers and creeks.
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An old ship transformed into floating forest
Homebush Bay in Sydney, Australia is home to the remains of a demolition site that worked during the mid 20th century. The "SS Ayrfield" a behemoth 1,140 tons built in 1911 and used during World War II as a transport ship was towed to Homebush Bay and disassembled to recover all components that could be reused or sold for scrap.
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Tree loss mapped in 'near real time'
A new global monitoring system has been launched that promises "near real time" information on deforestation around the world.
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Pine smell 'limits' climate change
New research suggests a strong link between the powerful smell of pine trees and climate change.
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Pine Forest Aerosols Play Significant Role in Climate, Study Says
Pine forest vapors form small aerosol particles that may significantly cool the climate by reflecting the sun's energy back into space, according to new findings.
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Ancient trees revealed by storms
The remains of 10,000-year-old trees have been uncovered on a beach in the north of the Isle of Man after recent storms battered the Manx coastline.
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IKEA is in trouble for cutting down 600-year-old trees
Logging subsidiary Swedwood had its forestry certificate pulled in Karelia, Russia.
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Tree storm damage 'worst since 1987' in the UK
This winter's extreme winds caused the biggest loss of trees in more than 20 years, according to the National Trust.
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Forests Around Chernobyl Aren’t Decaying Properly
It wasn't just people, animals and trees that were affected by radiation exposure at Chernobyl, but also the decomposers: insects, microbes, and fungi.
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Researchers are hopeful this new beetle will save the Hemlocks in the Southeast
A beetle the size of a single grain of rice is the latest best hope for hemlocks in the Southeast that have been felled by the millions by an invasive bug.
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Tough Trees Transforming Moroccan Desert
A biotech company has patented a hybrid tree species that can grow in the toughest environments and will be used to create biofuel.
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These 18 tree houses are heavenly
A look at these tree houses and you will realize that it is never too late to live your childhood dreams … I think many of us would have liked a tree house like this in our childhood, well now we can see them and dream that we live in one of these tree houses …
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Girl Walks In An Ancient Baobab Forest
Near the city of Morondava, on the West coast of Madagascar lies an ancient forest of Baobab trees. Unique to Madagascar, the endemic species is sacred to the Malagasy people, and rightly so. Walking amongst these giants is like nothing else on this planet. Some of the trees here are over a thousand years old. It is a spiritual place, almost magical. Photo and caption by Ken Thorne.
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Poachers Attack Beloved Elders of California, Its Redwoods
It was an unlikely crime scene: a steep trail used by bears leading to a still, ancient redwood grove. There, a rare old-growth coast redwood had been brutally hacked about 15 times by poachers, a chain saw massacre that had exposed the tree’s deep red heartwood.
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'Cherry tree from space' mystery baffles Japan
A cosmic mystery is uniting monks and scientists in Japan after a cherry tree grown from a seed that orbited the Earth for eight months bloomed years earlier than expected -- and with very surprising flowers. The four-year-old sapling -- grown from a cherry stone that spent time aboard the International Space Station (ISS) -- burst into blossom on April 1, possibly a full six years ahead of Mother Nature's normal schedule.
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Chinese Businessman Tries to Hide Rooftop Villa with Trees and Bushes
When this wealthy Chinese businessman purchased an 18th floor penthouse apartment in Guangzhou city several years ago, he appeared quite contented with it. But soon, he began to make changes that the neighbors thought were weird. At first, he planted all kinds of huge trees and thick bushes on the roof, which neighbors assumed were meant to protect his privacy.
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Amazon Rainforest in Brazil the most dangerous place in the world for environmental activists
According to Global Witness, the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil remains the most dangerous place in the world for environmental activists. Of 908 environmental activists killed in 35 countries since 2002, 448 were murdered in one country alone: Brazil. And the murder rate is increasing; from 51 in 2002 to 147 in 2012. In most cases the killers are out free, with only 10 convictions out of 908 dead.
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These Are Some of the Oldest Living Things on Earth
Animals sometimes sleep inside the hollows of giant 2,000-year old baobab trees inside Kruger Game Preserve in South Africa. Humans too, sometimes use the trees, for more dubious purposes - a jail, a toilet, a pop-up bar - as photographer Rachel Sussman discovered when she toured the park to photograph the trees for her new book, The Oldest Living Things in the World.
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