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.
Thames garden bridge scrapped by Sadiq Khan
Common sense has prevailed over London’s idealistic Garden Bridge plan and £37m of public money must be repaid, says Oliver Wainwright for the Guardian…
Apple buys up all the trees
Apple is buying so many trees for its new campus in California that there aren’t enough for anyone else, says Quartz…
Sought-after willows making a mark across the globe
Some 60 willow trees have been harvested from a park in St Neots ready to be transformed into cricket bats, reports the Hunts Post…
LOSING TREES…
Polish law change unleashes ‘massacre’ of trees
The Guardian reports that a group of women calling themselves Polish Mothers on Tree Stumps are raising awareness of a new law that allows private landowners to cut down any number of trees without applying for permission or even informing authorities…
Paradise Lost: Polish forest devastated
Jarosław Krogulec, Head of Conservation at OTOP (BirdLife Poland) recounts the tragic devastation Białowieża Forest, a Unesco World Heritage Site, in BirdLife International…
Tree-mageddon in Sheffield
The Daily Mail says 300 trees are being felled a week by “elf ‘n’ safety jobsworths” who say it’s cheaper to chop them than maintain them…
Community bids farewell to 600-year-old oak
A 600-year-old white oak in New Jersey was –
according to legend – a picnic site for George Washington. Now it will be lost, says the Daily Mail…
SAVING TREES…
Youths hug trees to protest felling on highway
The locals have been joined by students in Kolkata to protest against the felling of more than 4,000 fully grown trees along the highway, reports the Hindustan Times…
Why Sydney trees need help
Progressive Australians have embraced green living but many still have a blind spot when it comes to trees, the City of Sydney’s urban forest manager Karen Sweeney says in the Guardian…
…and here’s a quiz for Sydney residents: Do you suffer from tree blindness?
Tree Canada gets into the spirit of sesquicentennial
Tree Canada launched its tree-planting events for the Canada 150 celebrations in Regina, says Global News…
ARTS…
Top 10 books about trees
From Dante to John Clare and James Joyce, matters arboreal have inspired many writers – the Guardian chooses its top 10…
Photographer will document ancient forest
The Chingford Times says Marion Sidebottom has been awarded funding to photograph veteran trees in Epping forest…
Blue public art is no joke
Artist Konstantin Dimopoulos is painting trees blue (harmlessly) in the Denver Theatre District, reports Westword…
Treehouse retreat with views of Cape Town forest
As always we have an archtectural delight from de zeen – this treehouse is in Cape Town, South Africa…
SCIENCE…
World is home to ‘60,000 tree species’
There are 60,065 species of trees in the world, according to a comprehensive study of the world’s plants, reported by the BBC…
Can we fight climate change with trees and grass?
The MIT Technology Review says using biomass to capture carbon dioxide sounds like a good idea – and new studies will help find out if it really is…
Building a better future for street trees
A conference of the Institute of Chartered Foresters in Birmingham, England, shared lessons from around the world on ‘benefits and disamenities’ of urban trees, reports Horticulture Week…
To save forests, cut some trees down
Scientists have found that thinning early in forest growth creates tougher trees that can endure climate change, says the AAAS Science website…
Like Guardians of the Galaxy’s Groot, trees can talk
New research suggests that the concept of “talking trees” isn’t just confined to the realms of fantasy and science fiction, says the Telegraph…
HISTORY…
Scotland’s Wallace tree could be a major find
Experts believe the discovery in Port Glasgow of a tree linked to William Wallace could be a “major archaeological find”, says the Greenock Telegraph…
Untold stories of women in Australian forest
The West Australian says the region’s women who worked or lived in the forest are being celebrated in a new book…
AND FINALLY…
Did trees once grow on Mars?
An alien hunter claims to have spotted an ancient tree stump on the red planet, according to the Daily Mail…
Wood you believe it? Man eats trees
A Pakistani man is addicted to eating trees after starting to munch on leaves when he was so poor he couldn’t afford food – another wacky story from the Daily Mail…
The Squirrelbasket 
tree house is fun. Beautiful detailing with the bronze fittings on the wood.
I hoped you would like that one!
I always try to find something from South Africa, or at least the continent of Africa, for the round-up.
All the best 🙂
I rather like the blue trees!
Yes, very alien – and thank goodness the paint is harmless…
Best wishes 🙂