Most animals have their own version of tree rings – here’s how we biologists use them to help species thrive
Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...
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Virginia-grown White Oak trees are under threat — and so is the world's bourbon supply
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner and Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell last week introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at safeguarding America's white oak tree population. Why it matters: The wood from white ...
Meet The World’s Most ‘Safeguarded’ Tree—A Jurassic Survivor Thought Extinct Until 1994
The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...
Keep the benefits of trees in rural landscapes
University of Minnesota Extension If you traveled through rural Minnesota last winter, you probably realized some of the benefits of windbreaks and living snow ...
'An 8-person hugging tree': Nebraska now boasts largest cottonwood in the United States
It’s not very assuming until you get right up to it and you see how big that trunk is. You’re like ‘Holy cow, that’s a big ...
Native Plant: American lindens make excellent shade trees for you landscape
In maturity, the basswood develops a pyramidal shape and can grow to 80 feet high and 50 feet wide. The heart-shaped leaves ...
Outdoors column: Why some trees hold their leaves through winter remains a mystery
This phenomenon, called marcescence, adds a unique dimension to the winter landscape, and gives me something to ponder while ...
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Study shows degradation changes a forest’s tree profile and its carbon storage
In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing species, a recent study has found. Having examined 1,207 tree species ...
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Sydney funnel-web spider found to be three different species
The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed. Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ...
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Trees might not be acting in the way we thought - this forest fitted with pipes can tell us why
It's a system shift. And forests are vulnerable the same way as every ecosystem is." Tree species themselves are also increasingly at risk. According to the 2024 update of the International Union ...
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Forty-one new flora and fauna species added to Australia's threatened list
Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation. There were 42 new additions to the national list of ...