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Grove of 100 Giant Trees Discovered in 2019 Are Tallest in the Amazon–and Now Protected by State Park
From the depths of the Brazilian Amazon comes the incredible news that a massive new protected area, guarding the tallest and most valuable trees...
This Startup Is Using Dead Leaves to Make Paper Without Cutting Trees
Businesses like to talk about the concept of a closed loop or circular economy, but often they're trying to close small loops. Releaf Paper...
Trees Reveal Climate Surprise: Bark Removes Methane from the Atmosphere
A surprise discovery from the University of Birmingham shows that we may be significantly underestimating the potential of trees to regulate the variables of...
Bat-like Drone Can Hurl Itself at Trees and Perch There–Inspired By a Flying Squirrel
An innovative bat-like drone can fly straight into a tree and perch there, folding its wings around the trunk to hug it and keep...
Subtle, Imperceptible Tweaks at HarperCollins have Saved 245 Million Pages–Equal to 5,618 Trees
At HarperCollins, a lot of attention and thought is given to deciding exactly what combinations of margin measurements, font, and layout feel most appropriate...
The Story of How Rapa Nui Lost its Flowering Trees, But Humans Ensured its Survival
If you're the kind of person who likes rare things, then the toromiro tree would be a truly exceptional addition to your ornamental garden.
That's...
FedEx Delivers 300,000 Free Christmas Trees to Military Families With Annual Trees for Troops Program
FedEx is rolling down the highway to deliver Christmas joy to military families throughout America in the annual Trees for Troops program.
The freight company...
Couple Plants 2 Million Trees in 20 Years to Turn Destroyed Forest Back Into a Wildlife Haven
In 2001, the legendary photojournalist Sebastião Salgado had a dream of restoring the forest near his home in the state of Minas Gerais. Now...
Red Maple Trees Line English Road to Honor 418 Canadian Soldiers Who Died Defending Freedom Overseas
Stunning photos of autumnal red maple trees lining a highway are a moving commemoration to Canadian soldiers who gave their lives overseas during the...
Wild Mushroom Harvest Helps Keep Trees Standing in Mozambique
By Ryan Truscott.
Lomwé and Macua communities in Mozambique’s Zambezia province traditionally harvest wild mushrooms to eat alongside staples like cassava. Conservationists are working with...
Wash. D.C’s ‘Weed Warrior’ Volunteers Tackle ‘Mile-a-Minute’ Invasives to Save the Capital’s Trees
Around the capital beltway or Washington's famous Rock Creek Park, you may see a group of people ripping up vines along the treeline beside...
Tree-Loving Brits Crowdsource a National ‘Ancient Tree Inventory’ – 200,000 Unique Trees
A UK non-profit has leveraged the special relationship that the British have for trees to create an 'Ancient Tree Inventory' to coordinate conservation, environmental...
1 Million New Seagrass Seedlings Will Protect Sardinia’s Beaches While Storing 35-Times More Carbon Than Trees
To any government reading, there's a plant that provides habitat for nearly all the species of the sea, anchors the sediment on the seafloor,...
Leslie Dart has Planted 372,290 Trees Across Canada Over the Past 3 Summers and Inspired So Many Others
A young woman in Canada's Saskatchewan Province recently garnered 8.7 million views on a TikTok video of her planting 4,545 trees in a single...
Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Our Planet Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms
Cast a net back 450 million years ago to the Ordovician Era, and you wouldn't capture anything more than the ancestors of millipedes and...
Tree Growing Nonprofit is Sprouting Entrepreneurs With Unique Training and Lots of Trees for Madagascar
Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness.
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One of Britain’s Oldest and Greatest Oak Trees Gets $7,000 Hug from Community
In the southern Scottish town of Jedburgh, an old neighbor recently received a helping hand from the community.
A 700-1,000-year-old sessile oak, known as the...
Stranded in Snow With No Reception He Tied His iPhone to a Drone to Get Above Trees to Send SOS Text
An experienced mountain-going photographer got stuck in a snowdrift while trying to rescue another stranded vehicle on a remote mountain road in Oregon.
He knew...
Making Building Materials Out of Fast-Growing Grasses Capture More Carbon Than Trees for US Startup
A startup looking to find better ways to mass-produce lumber for construction has swapped trees for grass.
It turns out that with sophisticated laminating and...
Urban Trees at the End of Life Are Turned into Valuable Products, Rather Than Chipped for Landfil
Across America, cities are choosing to upcycle their felled urban trees into valuable products rather than chipping them, burning them, or dumping them into...