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.
Thousand-year-old cedar is the new ivory
Ancient trees are disappearing from protected national forests around the world – the Smithsonian looks inside the $100bn market for stolen wood…
Incredible dream of sequoia skyscrapers
Dezeen reports on a conceptual scheme by a team of South Korean designers to insert towers within the hollowed-out trunks of giant sequoias in the western US…
10 ways to listen to trees
To attend to a tree’s song is to touch a stethoscope to the skin of a landscape, hearing what stirs below, says Scientific American…
Luxury treehouse takes centre stage
An incredible luxury tree house starred in Main Avenue at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, says The London Economic…
From Canada to Chelsea
…meanwhile Charlotte Harris’s gold-medal winning show garden at Chelsea was inspired by the magical forests of Northern Ontario, says the Guardian…
Small victory for Reg
…and the Swindon Advertiser reports on a local man whose bonsai trees won gold at Chelsea…
Tree clearing may have killed 180 koalas in two years
The World Wildlife Fund is calling for public pressure on the Australian government to reduce habitat destruction in Queensland, according to the Guardian…
Asian beetle could wipe out Britain’s ash trees
Experts at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew say the emerald ash borer beetle is on the march to Europe and could be even more deadly than ash dieback, reports the Telegraph…
Olive trees also vulnerable to emerald beetle
…meanwhile according to Entomology Today, the olive tree is also vulnerable to the emerald ash borer…
A short history of shady pavements
We hardly notice them. But street trees are monuments to city life, writes Ian Jack for the Guardian…
American trees are migrating west
Over the past 30 years, three-quarters of eastern US tree species have been shifting to the west – and no one knows why, says the Business Insider…
Himalayan trees are marching uphill
…meanwhile the treeline is moving higher in the mountains, according to The Himalayan…
10 species for small yards
This month Treehugger recommends 10 trees for small gardens, including the pictured flowering dogwood…
Danes say more trees, please…
If the money can be found, a possible 27,704 more trees could be planted in Copenhagen, says CPH Post…
Negative emissions technology
The Guardian asks whether more trees, carbon capture or biochar can solve our CO2 problem…
End of days for last primeval forest
We’ve been following this story for a while – now scientists and environmental campaigners have accused the Polish government of bringing the ecosystem of the Białowieża forest in north-eastern Poland to the “brink of collapse”, says the Guardian…
Guardians of the peatland
Forests News reports on the Indonesian community leaders who are fighting back to preserve their peatlands…
EU ‘greenwash’ on burning biomass
European nations publicly keen to boost their climate credentials by switching to “green” biomass are accused of working behind the scenes to expunge their carbon emissions from burning wood in power stations from national emissions statistics, says New Scientist…
Designs on a dream cabin in Quebec forest
Dezeen reports on a longitudinal Canadian home by Atelier Pierre Thibault in the Laurentian Forest…
Cocaine trade destroys ecosystem
The drug trade’s efforts to launder profits by creating agricultural land results in loss of millions of acres of forest in Central America, according to the Guardian…
An all-round look at the Puzzlewood
Gloucestershire Live invites you to take a 360-degree tour around the magical forest that’s played host to Star Wars and Doctor Who…
Forest holiday getaway in Cornwall
The Plymouth Herald reviews Forest Holidays’ Deerpark resort in Cornwall…
And finally…
Secret of the spitting goats
New Scientist has a new take on these tree-climbing goats in south-western Morocco. It seems their habit of spitting out valuable argan seeds may be essential to the survival of the forests…
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Love, love, love 🙂 Every time you post your news from the world of trees Pat I wonder how long it takes you to research and prepare the posts! Thank you.
Not long… Google is very helpful!
🙂
Coincidentally, I liked the 10 trees too and shared on my personal Facebook 🙂
Another great collection, thanks Pat. I loved “10 ways to Listen to Trees”! Neat to see that Scientific American editors appreciate the beauty and wonder of science.
Yes, it’s always nice to find something a bit off beat 🙂