Here is another selection of tree news articles from around the world. Click on each of the pictures if you would like to read the full stories.
‘It smells so bad you can taste it’
Grey-headed flying foxes are making life a misery in an Australian tourist town, so their trees may be chopped down, says the Guardian…
Why Oakmont waged a war on trees
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Pennsylvania country club has felled 7,500 trees since it last hosted the US Open golf tournament…
Trees may relax at night, say scientists
For the first time, trees have been shown to undergo physical changes at night that can be likened to sleep, according to the Daily Mail. I was tipped off about this story by Tim Havenith (see his Notes of Nature blog here)…
A warming planet – in pictures
A picture gallery in the Guardian looks at droughts, floods, forest fires and melting polar ice…
Willow trees donated to Heartwood Forest
Scientists are donating nine species of willow to the Heartwood Forest project, says the Herts Advertiser…
Felling of Poltair trees is a ‘complete mess’
The Cornishman reports that a developer has destroyed a mature woodland…
US releases millions of wasps to fight ash tree borer
A parasite from China attacks eggs and larvae of the Asian insect pest that has wiped out tens of millions of trees, says the Guardian…
Review: The Wood for the Trees by Richard Fortey
The natural historian bought four acres of beech and bluebell wood and began a deep investigation into its fauna and flora…
Too dry for the beeches
Droughts across Europe are affecting British trees like the beech worst, says Science Daily…
Aspen beaver attacks replicated
Shropshire company Forestart is putting aspens under pressure similar to a beaver attack to make them produce more seeds, according to the BBC…
Pruned trees reveal hidden Huddersfield treasure
The Huddersfield Examiner reports that pruning trees at a shopping centre has revealed long-unseen works of art…
Europe orders Italians to cut down olive trees
Farmers in southern Italy will be forced to chop down thousands of olive trees infected with a deadly disease, the European Court of Justice ruled, says the Telegraph…
320-million-year-old fossils give insight into growth
Fossilised stem cells from the first giant rainforest show how differently trees grew, says the Daily Mail…
Annie Proulx talks about deforestation
The Observer talks trees with Annie Proulx, whose latest novel Barkskins, is a 700-page history of the timber trade…
Plague of green wrigglers in Ulster
A wriggly carpet of green ash saw-fly larvae is stripping trees in Ulster, says the BBC (with video)…
Cobwebs everywhere after floods
Thousands of tiny spiders are taking to the trees after floods in Tasmania, says the International Business Times…
Can’t see the shops for the trees
A shopping centre wants to chop down 100 trees they say are hindering trade, says The Press in York…
And finally…
Drive-through redwoods
The Daily Mail has a gallery of images, some a century old, of car-sized tunnels carved through giant redwoods in California…
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Lovely update thank you for sharing have a blessed day
Hope you have a wonderful day, too 🙂
Five for me to read – thank you
No problem – although the #5 is because it’s my fifth one, there are actually far more than five pieces for you to catch up with!
All the best 🙂
So many things to read! And such a good idea to give links like this. I’ll need to come back to do some clicking.
I’m not sure I’ve read all of them in detail myself!
All the best 🙂
thanks for the compilation, Pat — some really good ones. And great memories of those tree tunnels! I have a photo of my brother and I posing on the family car in the “Wawona Tree” a long time ago, must be at least 55 years. I included it in a post a few years ago, if you want to see (about half way down)
http://plantsandrocks.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-button-that-would-keep-us-there.html
I’ve been to look at your blog post – you really WERE there under the redwood tunnel! In a GREAT automobile…
I’m impressed 🙂
Thanks, Pat, for taking a look at the post. I’m glad this post prompted me to reread it. I agree the poem is sad, as you mentioned in your comment there–in some ways quite sad for me as my parents’ life became pretty difficult later on. But I find it helpful to look back on the good times.
Best wishes!