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California goes nuts
It takes a gallon of water to produce one almond. And that's not the most insane fact about the mad dash to plant the thirsty trees in the middle of a catastrophic drought.
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A Tree Grows 40 Different Types of Fruit
A tree that Sam Van Aken grows might look like any other—until it blooms. First, its branches blossom in different shades of pink, white and crimson, and then, quite magically, the tree displays a mix of fruit. Van Aken's Tree of 40 Fruit, an invention that’s just what it sounds like, is capable of producing 40 different varieties of fruit—plums, peaches, apricots, nectarines, cherries and others. The 42-year-old sculptor and art professor at Syracuse University created his first multi-fruit...
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Londoners Living Near Street Trees Get Prescribed Fewer Antidepressants
The new finding fits with a host of evidence linking urban greenery to mental health.
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Belize is at War and Doesn’t Even Know It
The Chiquibul Forest is the largest protected area in Belize. Illegal Guatemalan poachers, loggers and gold panners, driven by poverty and inequality, are waging a carefully coordinated assault by chainsaw, horse and man power on our national sovereignty—destroying fragile ecosystems and raping our natural resources.
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This ‘tree’ generates enough electricity to heat your apartment
When you think of wind turbines, you probably picture wind farms in rural areas. But NewWind’s Arbre à Vent was designed for cities. They're practically silent and can generate enough power to heat a home.
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A carpet of cherry blossom
You can find this most unique view on a street in Bonn, Germany in spring time.
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Ranking The 500 Companies And Investors That Could Stop Deforestation--But Don't
Who profits from clearing the world's forests? And which have policies in place to avoid doing that? The Forest 500 list aims to hold these players accountable.
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Red Cabin
By Amila Omerika.
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Volkswagen van and a big tree
Taken at Sequoia National Park.
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How One Man Accidentally Killed the Oldest Tree Ever
In 1964, Donal Rusk Currey killed the oldest tree ever. To this day, there has still never been an older tree discovered. The tree was a Great Basin bristlecone pine, and Currey didn’t meant to kill it. It was an accident, and one he didn’t really understand the ramifications of until he started counting rings
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First Tree Seeds for Doomsday Vault
The Svalbard "doomsday" vault - widely known for protecting global food crop seeds - has accepted its first delivery of forest tree species seeds.
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Signs of Spring 'Shifting' in Trees
Scientists say signs of spring are appearing earlier in woodlands because of temperature rises in past decades.
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Projections in the Forest
The projection mapping "bioluminescent forest" is made by artists Friedrich van Schoor and Tarek Mawad. The artists spent six weeks in the forest fascinated by the silence and natural occurrences in nature, especially the phenomenon "bioluminescence". They personified the forest to accentuate the natural beauty by creating luring luminescent plants and glowing magical mushrooms that speaks volumes to any visitor that enters the minds of the artists through viewing "bioluminescent forest".
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Forest fires rage in Chile: Thousands Evacuated From Coastal City
Forest fires rage out of control near Chile's Valparaiso, with authorities evacuating over 4,000 people. .
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Bird High in Tree Watching Sunrise
I spy!
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Amazon's trees removed nearly a third less carbon in last decade
The amount of carbon the Amazon’s remaining trees removed from the atmosphere fell by almost a third last decade, leading scientists to warn that man-made carbon emissions would need to be cut more deeply to tackle climate change. Trees in untouched areas of the forest have been dying off across the basin at an increasing rate, found the study, published in Nature on Wednesday. Meanwhile the tree growth produced by higher CO2 levels in recent decades leveled off.
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Earth's Forests Are Broken
Researchers find that critical forest habitats around the world have become increasingly fragmented, putting plants and wildlife (not to mention the planet) at risk.
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Crooked Forest in Poland
A picture of Crooked Forest in Nowe Czarnowo (Poland). There are 400 pine trees with mysteriously bent trunks and no one knows exactly why!
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Stopping deforestation: Battle for the Amazon
Brazil has waged a successful war on tropical deforestation, and other countries are trying to follow its lead. But victory remains fragile.
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This Drone Startup Has An Ambitious (Crazy) Plan To Plant 1 Billion Trees A Year
Why plant one tree when a drone can shoot pregerminated seed pods at the ground without you lifting a finger?
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