Trees that live fast die young and this is bad news for the climate crisis
The carbon capacity storage of trees could be challenged in the future.
Tag: trees
Planting trees is not a simple solution to climate change
Tree planting is far from a panacea, researchers argue, and shouldn't be seen as a solution by itself.
The secret behind Ginkgo biloba’s near-immortal lifespan
Researchers boldly claim that despite some organs like leaves perish, the three itself doesn't die of old age
Oldest fossilized forest discovered under New York
The 386-million-year-old forest marked a massive transition in the planet's history from sparce vegetation to lush tropical forests.
Tree-planting campaign raises $8 million in five days
Project Team Trees seeks to plant 20 million trees by 2020
Vikings cut down all of Iceland’s forests — the country is planting them anew
Since 2015, Iceland has planted around 1,000 hectares of forest (between three and four million trees).
NASA creates first 3D model of Amazon rainforest canopy to estimate the effects of droughts, climate change
Drought has a massive effect on rainforests. Bad news in the current changing climate.
The US lost roughly 1 in every 100 urban trees between 2009 and 2014
Which is a pity, because they save us a lot of money.
Without tree husks to house them, Europe’s beetles are dying out
Sometimes not tidying up can be a good thing.
Trump Forest wants to compensate for the POTUS’ climate policy by planting 100 new billion trees
Nope, it's not Trump's idea.
How old is the oldest tree?
it's a surprisingly long time.
We can’t count on trees to solve our global warming mess — there’s just too much CO2 out there
We'd have to plant trees instead of food.
Up to 80 percent of all wildfires in the U.S. are started by humans
Wildfires are generally good for forests but the current trend is anything but natural.
The different types of forests: everything you need to know
The green lungs of the earth come in many different varieties.
Mindblowing fact of the day: sharks are older than trees
That's seriously badass!
Scientists use sound waves to ‘listen’ for decay in trees
The longer a sound wave takes to transverse the trunk, the more decayed the tree is.
Gold growing on trees offers a new prospecting tool
Who said money doesn't grow on trees? Take this grandpa!
“Extinct” elms discovered doing just fine in the Queen’s gardens, Edinburgh
It's good to be Queen. But it's even better to be the Queen's elms.
Douglas fir forests are buckling under the heat, pausing their growth altogether
Silly trees, can't they set the thermostat lower, like the rest of us?
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