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Publication date: 1 February 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 625Author(s): Malik Kaci, Dimitrios Papadakis, Aleksandar Petrovic

Publication date: 1 February 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 625Author(s): Radosław Radoń, Andrzej Wałęga, Vahid Nasiri, Jakub Miszczyszyn, Jarosław Socha

Publication date: 1 February 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 625Author(s): Kathleen E. Bershing, Sharon Reed, Violet Butterwort, Jon Sweeney, Cory Hughes, Deepa S. Pureswaran, Tara L. Bal

Publication date: 1 February 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 625Author(s): Wendi Qu, Lei Liu, Lingwen Dong, Yingjie Zhang, Haifeng Tian, Wenjun He, Yuan Ma, Hao Hua

Publication date: 1 February 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 625Author(s): Guiping Li, Shidong Chen, Zhijie Yang, Teng-Chiu Lin, Jiacong Zhou, Guangfei Lan, Haibin Kang, Jiebao Liu, Yiqing Li, Yusheng Yang

Publication date: 1 February 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 625Author(s): Caren C. Mendonca, C. Rhett Jackson, Doug P. Aubrey

Publication date: 1 February 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 625Author(s): Marie Berthet, Philippe Balandier, Hervé Cochard, Camille Couteau, Sandrine Perret, Thomas Perot

Publication date: 1 February 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 625Author(s): Simon Bilodeau-Gauthier, François Guillemette, Steve Bédard

Publication date: 1 February 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 625Author(s): Norbert Flórián, Veronika Gergócs-Winkler, Péter Ódor, Tamás Németh, Bence Kovács, László Sipőcz, Bettina Kelemen, Sándor Attila Pabar, Takács Tünde

Publication date: 1 February 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 625Author(s): Shamim Ahmed, Luke Bohnhorst, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Katja Kröner, Stergios Adamopoulos, Hans Pretzsch

Publication date: 1 February 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 625Author(s): Grzegorz Apoznański, Emilia Rakowska, Andrew Carr, Sandra Krzemińska, Kamil Drejer, Alek Rachwald

Publication date: 15 January 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 624Author(s): Océane Bartholomée, Dafne (Ram) Keating, Åke Lindström, Lars B. Pettersson, Henrik G. Smith, Paul Caplat

Publication date: 15 January 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 624Author(s): Grace A. Vielleux, Trent D. Penman, Victoria A. Reynolds, Katharine L. Senior, Saumya Wanniarachchi, Luke T. Kelly, Emma Window, Matthew H. Swan

Publication date: 15 January 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 624Author(s): Huiwen Sun, Yuan Zheng, Zihan Zhao, Wenlong Chang, Wenxu Zhu, Junxia Li, Yibo Wen

Publication date: 15 January 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 624Author(s): M.M. Seeley, C.P. Giardina, N.R. Vaughn, G.P. Asner

Publication date: 15 January 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 624Author(s): Manuel Trindade, Luisa Carvalho, Helena Machado, Ricardo Ferreira

Publication date: 15 January 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 624Author(s): Li Gu, Yunyun Hu, Xiaowei Hou, Shidong Xin, Junjie Wang

Publication date: 15 January 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 624Author(s): Yan-kui Chen, Meng-Choung Chiong, Xue-fei Mo, Yu Zhang

Publication date: 15 January 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 624Author(s): Jorge Maestre-Villanueva, Belén Acuña-Míguez, Cristóbal Ordoñez, Andrés Bravo-Oviedo

Publication date: 15 January 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 624Author(s): Ana Paula da Silva Bossolani

Publication date: 15 January 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 624Author(s): Qifeng Gong, Yongwei Lou, Xianyu Yang, Yantong Li, Jinlian Liu, Yan Lin, Jianqiang Rao, Shimin Zheng, Lingxiu Zhong, Shouzhong Li

Publication date: 15 January 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 624Author(s): Marie-Pierre Tasseroul, Philippe Lejeune, Yves Brostaux, Adrien Michez, Hugues Titeux, Hugues Claessens

Publication date: 15 January 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 624Author(s): Yiran Zhang, Xiaohua Gou, Junzhou Zhang, Kai Wang, Xinyue Cao, Kangxiang Huang, Kaixuan Yang

Publication date: 15 January 2027Source: Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 624Author(s): Friderike Beyer, Martin Ehbrecht, Kerstin Pierick, Tillman Reuter, Christian Ammer, Dominik Seidel

Shop Christmas trees from $31.89, including slim firs, traditional spruces, and pre-lit styles, with discounts up to 67% to help stretch your decorating budget.

India, Nov. 13 — From pump storage projects in Maharashtra to rail and tunnel projects in Karnataka and Kerala, large-scale deforestation is threatening the fragile Western Ghats. Compensatory …

The 42nd annual Festival of Trees returns to Eau Gallie to support local community projects and students in need.

Five approximately 200-year-old South African baobab trees uprooted for a private botanical park belonging to a Georgian billionaire are at the centre of a legal dispute.

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: The woodland floor is littered with sycamore and ash, some revealing a pattern that runs through trunks like words in a stick of rockAn ash tree swayed, audibly groaning, a split in the trunk opening and closing like a mouth. Suffering from ash dieback, it seemed it could topple at any second here in the quiet of the woodland. A few weeks ago, Dad set the trail camera on it, to capture the moment of fall. Since then, two storms have churned through Norfolk – treating us gently compared with elsewhere, but nevertheless leaving casualties in their wake.Fallen trunks now crisscross the woodland floor: sycamores, several ashes, an oak. But not the ash that had seemed so vulnerable. Why does one tree survive but another fall? I look closely at one of the ashes that succumbed to the winds, with its headless trunk jutting skyward, spiked and bare. Continue reading…

A dead tree in the landscape becomes increasingly risky to people and What is within its range? Anything it can fall on. So, dead trees should be remo …

Mangrove forests have been disappearing from the planet’s coastlines for decades, but satellite images spanning forty years have revealed an unexpected twist in this story.

A 17-year-old with autism disappeared last Friday during a camping trip. He was found alive on Thursday by a police helicopter near Walhalla, Australia.

In a recent survey, nearly 90 per cent of people responded that forests are a vital part of our national identity. Meanwhile, threats to our forested landscapes are rising, as wildfires, extreme …

Researchers have discovered that a familiar tropical butterfly actually belongs to three nearly identical species, including one previously unknown to science. Hidden ultraviolet wing patterns and DNA differences revealed the truth, leaving scientists puzzled about how the butterflies remain genetically separate despite living side by side.

With forests, as with water, fish and even farmland and minerals, Australian governments have become experts at preventing natural …

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has called on the world to support every available way of paying countries to protect their forests. He said this is the only way to raise the huge sums needed. Speaking …

As executive director of the group from 1969 to 1985, he aligned its disparate local chapters and offices into a powerful lobby in Washington. He was 92.

Once, Robin Greenfield aspired to wealth. Now, he has no home and eats from the earth. He chronicles it all on social media, but does the persona match the man?

Upwood, Cambridgeshire: This woodland is a stronghold for elm trees – and that brings the prospect of finding a stunning rarity, the wrinkled peachAbove me, a lively breeze moves through the tall elms, branches creaking between gusts. Most of the crowns look healthy, but a few stand skeletal against the sky, suggesting Dutch elm disease. Below them, the woodland floor is scattered with fallen trunks. I find pale bonnet fungi rising from the mossy bark and the frilled fans of tripe fungus. Where older logs have shed their bark, the exposed wood is marked by elm bark beetle etchings (or “galleries”) and the emergence holes of deadwood beetles.Raveley Wood is one of a chain of small, elm-rich woods along the Cambridgeshire fen edge. I’m here searching for wrinkled peach, a contender for Britain’s most beautiful mushroom: it has a salmon-pink cap, delicately wrinkled, and gills of the same shade. Ruddy-orange, jewel-like droplets often gather on its stem, a process known as guttation. Continue reading…

It is Paraguay’s largest private investment but local people accuse a forestry giant of ignoring their contamination concerns over its vast plantationWhen Paracel arrived in Tacuarita, an Indigenous community of homes made from planks and plastic sheeting in Paraguay’s poorest region, six years ago, it was a welcome sight. The company improved the dirt roads and dug an electric-powered well, saving villagers a two-mile journey to fetch water from a cattle pond that often made them sick. It also gave dozens of local people forestry jobs.“They fulfilled all their promises,” says Florencio Garcete, 55, chief of the Mbya Guaraní community of 211 people. Continue reading…

Global fossil fuel emissions are projected to fall in 2026 as renewable energy and electric vehicles gain ground, but rising emissions from deforestation threaten to push total CO2 emissions to a new record. Scientists warn that the world’s remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 1.5°C could be exhausted in less than four years, even as a lasting decline in emissions appears increasingly within reach.

After more than 35 years of research, scientists have uncovered surprising clues about what really drives Lyme disease risk. Contrary to longstanding assumptions, deer populations appear less important than mice, which can fuel a 40% increase in tick numbers the following year. Even acorn production can predict tick population surges two years in advance, while extreme temperatures may be far less deadly to ticks than scientists once believed.

The city enters its purple patch with jacaranda trees blazing into flower in the warmer weather. Every October and November the fast-growing trees are festooned with trumpet-shaped blossoms that soon carpet the ground below them, drawing sightseers, photographers – and people taking photos of people taking photosBlooming beautiful! The Tesselaar tulip festival – in pictures Continue reading…

Scientists have uncovered evidence that Europe was dominated for more than 20 million years by open woodlands, colorful meadows, and large grazing animals, not the dense forests long considered its natural state. The surprising discovery challenges modern reforestation strategies, suggesting that planting thick forests could actually harm the biodiversity conservationists hope to protect.

The seasonal transformation offers the chance to enjoy warm, golden colours before winter Continue reading…

Cairngorms: The scale and depth of damage is shocking, but there are precious small signs of recoveryIt’s over three months since the fire started that eventually engulfed 25 square kilometres of moorland and forest in the Cairngorms. I’ve now seen much of the area where the fire raged and have been shocked at the blackness of the land, how many of the moorland pines are dark as charcoal, their needles an unnaturally singed rust colour that goes on into the far distance, into the forest itself.I joined a party going up one of the affected glens to plant over 3,000 trees: cell-grown goat and creeping willow, downy birch and alder – montane species, often miniature varieties, that previously have grown in this habitat but been devastated by overgrazing. The seeds had been collected from nearby remnant populations and grown in the Cairngorms Connect Tree Nursery, part of an ongoing programme of landscape restoration. Continue reading…

ISA offers a variety of educational materials and products to help arborists expand their professional knowledge, experience, and promote the practice of arboriculture. Every month, we will feature …

Mild autumn temperatures causing premature flowering and raising concerns for pollinators, say expertsTrees are experiencing an “early spring” because of mild UK temperatures this autumn, with experts warning this could cause long-term harm to pollinators.Last month was warmer than average across all parts of the UK, with October marking the ninth consecutive month with above-average mean temperatures. Continue reading…

Scientists have solved a mystery surrounding destructive beetles attacking blueberry bushes in North Carolina, identifying a species whose massive larvae can grow up to five inches long and destroy plant roots. Although farmers have reported damage for more than a decade, the insects responsible remained unidentified until researchers used DNA analysis to uncover the culprit.

Liverpool: Their summer flowers provide the name and the fame, but this species is arguably at its best nowBeech mast crunches underfoot, and the occasional conker catches the sunlight, tiny beacons leading me to Camp Hill, south Liverpool, with its distant views over the Mersey estuary. Goldfinches erupt from desiccated knapweed, and a flock of pink-footed geese fly overhead. For once, the birds are not my goal, but a tree: the tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera).Every autumn, the Camp Hill tulip tree flaunts its flamboyant presence: the Lady Gaga of the parkland. Named because its flowers resemble a tulip flower, and its leaves a tulip silhouette, few can resist its tulle lace canopy of butter-gold leaves. The luminescence is enhanced by the sheen of its leaf cuticles, and the fissured trunk adds yet more sensory impact. Yet this year there is a strangeness: instead of the golden monotone you would expect of this moment, there is a messy mix of different shades. Might the summer drought have disrupted the pigment battle between anthocyanins and carotenoids? Continue reading…

Dozens of trees were recently destroyed by vandals in a forested area in Victoria Park, Charlottetown officials say.

A landscaper was electrocuted and killed on November 3, 2026 when his tree trimmer touched power lines and knocked him off a 16-foot ladder in a Hauppauge, NY backyard, police said. The shock sent the victim falling from the ladder. He was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The post Landscaper Electrocuted After Trimmer Hits Power Lines appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

The November 2026 Issue of Arboriculture & Urban Forestry is now online!  In this issue:  Environmental and Management Drivers of Magnolia silvioi Mortality in a Tropical Andean City …

The ecologist Eric W. Sanderson surveys the historical landscape of New York in a new book that, at 900,000 words, is as massive as the city it chronicles.

Scientists have discovered that trees can sense their own shape and straighten their trunks using specialized wood that acts like opposing muscles. This remarkable ability helps trees maintain their posture and could lead to stronger forests, better timber, and more resilient crops.

On a wildlife walk in the Indian capital, a group of women share their stories of trying to enjoy nature in a city where strangers feel entitled to harass themVallari Sheel wishes she could carry a camera or a pair of binoculars without being asked what her father does for a living. Once, looking at a tree in her south Delhi neighbourhood, about 50 metres away from her home, a man in a car screamed at her: “You have been clicking photos here for 10 days. What are you going to do with them?”Sheel, an urban ecologist, spends hours observing trees of all types in all seasons. She often travels by car for her own safety, worries about the impact of her work on her family, and has clear guidance for her female interns when they are, inevitably, approached: don’t engage, don’t respond. Continue reading…

Judge Ana C. Reyes said an outside investigator would help determine whether parks officials or Justice Department lawyers withheld plans for Washington’s East Potomac Park.

The victim was cutting down a tree at the Hidden Valley Scout camp when the tree fell on him, pinning his legs underneath. He was “conscious and talking,” as he was loaded into a med flight helicopter. The post Man Rushed to Hospital After Being Pinned Under Tree appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

The trouncing of the far right provides a playbook for social and environmental movements in other countries facing elections, including the US, Spain and FranceThank you, Brazil, for demonstrating how the far right can be trounced while protection for the Amazon is strengthened. In a world where nature and democracy appeared to be bleeding out in tandem, voters and forest defenders in this global south powerhouse have shown it is possible to staunch the flow. This should provide much needed inspiration and, more practically, a playbook for social and environmental movements in other countries facing elections, including the US, Spain and France.The astonishing comeback victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s presidential runoff against his extreme right challenger Flavío Bolsonaro has brought oceans of rapturous supporters on to the streets, while also thrilling conservationists, climate activists and social justice campaigners across the world. Continue reading…

Authorities allege company may have breached Finnish environmental laws by forgoing required impact assessment‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentreFinnish ⁠police have launched a criminal investigation into possible breaches ⁠of the country’s environmental ⁠laws ​at the site of a planned Google datacentre in rural northern Finland.Authorities allege that Tuike Finland, a Google subsidiary, cleared and drained 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest at the planned site in Muhos before environmental impact assessments required by Finnish law had been completed. Continue reading…

Threats hiding in plain sight could upend forests far and wide.

 A worker in Charlotte, NC was critically hurt on October 28, 2026 after he was electrocuted while hanging Christmas lights. Charlotte firefighters confirmed the electrocution and said one worker was moving an extension ladder when electricity arced from a nearby power line. He was critically injured by the shock. A bystander immediately started CPR. Once […] The post Worker Electrocuted Hanging Christmas Lights appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

National trust of Victoria award celebrates much-loved arboreal icons while calling for protection of green spacesFollow our Australia politics live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFor more than 160 years, a humble ginkgo tree raised from seed in Geelong’s botanic gardens has been the backdrop to “countless local love stories”. Standing beneath it is the most popular spot to get married at the park, its branches forming the backdrop of many wedding photos.Now, in addition to being the largest ginkgo biloba in the state – and possibly Australia – at a whopping 20 metres tall, it has a new claim to fame. The much-adored Geelong icon has been crowned Victoria’s tree of the year. Continue reading…

The arborist fell to their death while working in a tree. No further details regarding the fall or the victim have been made available. The post Arborist Dies After Falling While Working in Tree appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

The re-election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected to lead to continued rainforest protections. His opponent wanted to make it easier to clear land.

The man was killed while cutting down a tree on his property. When the tree fell, it began rolling towards the victim. Unable to escape, he became trapped underneath it. The post Man Killed While Cutting Tree appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

Scientists have discovered a giant new fungus in China that grows up to 20 inches tall and weighs nearly five pounds, making it the largest known of its kind. Dubbed “D-rex,” its evolutionary lineage appears to have emerged shortly after the dinosaurs went extinct, raising intriguing questions about how that ancient catastrophe may have shaped its evolution.

We’ve plunged fully into fall, complete with cozy scarves and puffy vests. Why not venture into the woods?

My friend Neville Fay, who has died aged 78, set up the reforestation charity Tree Aid in 1987 and then went on to reshape understanding of ancient trees and the soil.During the Dutch elm disease epidemic in the 1970s, Neville bought an old Transit van and chainsaw, felled dead trees and sold firewood door to door. This eventually evolved into Treework Services, expanding into milling timber, tree surgery, landscaping, hardwood flooring and kitchen manufacturing; by 1982 it had become a co-operative of more than 30 people. Continue reading…

Concrete sprawl in Yaoundé has devastated the city’s trees and parks, so volunteers are stepping up, shrub by shrubA little piece of paradise is buried under the asphalt that is now lined with parked cars. The romantic spot where Sosthène Hugues Ngono used to bring his first dates had been green and beautiful. “It wasn’t just a park,” he says, standing at the edge of what is now a private car park in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé.“It was where I came to clear my head when things felt confused,” he says. “Where I met people; where I fell in love, more than once.” Continue reading…

A 72-year-old man used a ladder to get to the roof of the building to trim trees, but could not get down. The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department responded and used a pulley system to get the man down safely. The post Man Rescued from Apartment Building Roof After Tree Trimming Plan Goes Awry appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

Dom Phillips warned that Jair Bolsonaro would make life more dangerous for reporters and the Amazon rainforest, and that his sons were even more extreme“Bolso shows all signs of fascism, as do his supporters,” the murdered British journalist Dom Phillips told me before his death. “His sons are all more extreme if anything.”These words were written in 2018 by the Guardian contributor shortly before the election of the far-right former army captain Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil – a prospect that Dom viewed with dread. Continue reading…

Season will be less vibrant with trees such as birches, which usually offer a striking burst of yellow leaves, already bareAmong a canvas of copper, red and purple autumn leaves on display at Wisley garden in Surrey, south-east England, one tree stands conspicuously naked.“The birch has lost all its leaves,” says Guy Barter, the chief horticulturist at the Royal Horticultural Society. “That’s the effect of drought, so it’ll have no autumn colour this year.” Continue reading…

Smoke from the blazes, blamed on destructive agricultural practices, has sickened hundreds of thousands and blanketed neighboring countries.

As Indonesia’s rainforests burn, frustration over deadly toxic haze from the fires has turned into protests. One widow mourned her husband, a volunteer firefighter who died from smoke exposure.

Plus, the Friday news quiz.

From Brazil to the North Sea, economic interests have been edging out climate priorities this week.

Trees are suffering one devastating epidemic after another, unleashed by insects and bacteria that enter the country because of global trade.

Honeybees are aggressively pushing wild pollinators away from flowers, with scientists documenting how they chase off rivals and dominate valuable food sources. New research warns that rising temperatures and increasing honeybee populations could intensify this competition, threatening wild bees and other important pollinators.

After decades of violent displacement and land theft, the country’s quilombola communities are fighting backFor most of his 39 years, Josias Dias dos Santos, known as Jota, has endured degrading cycles of displacement as a quilombola, a descendant of Black people once enslaved on Brazil’s sugar cane and coffee plantations. He says his and other quilombola families subsisting in the rainforests in Pará, northern Brazil, were first forced out of their settlements by violent loggers, then by ranchers and miners.Yet, they say the worst came with the arrival of the palm oil industry in what is now the country’s most deforested state. Palm oil companies producing biofuels and supplying global customers, subsidised by the federal government, have laid claim to ever larger tracts of traditional quilombola territory over the past two decades. Continue reading…

If Flávio Bolsonaro is elected, Brazil’s ecosystems will face collapse. The ruling class would rather burn the world than share it with the poor However grim the trajectory might seem, I’ve always believed that sense will ultimately prevail. As the great perils of dismantling the living world become increasingly obvious, even the most rapacious exploiters must come round. Nobody wants to live on a dead planet, do they?There are – or were – signs that this wasn’t just wishful thinking. Since 2015, mostly thanks to China, the area of the planet being reforested has increased, while thanks in large part to Brazil, the global rate of forest destruction has declined. The area of the Brazilian Amazon forest cleared each year is one-sixth of what it was when records began in 1988. In the past four years, as a result of Brazilian government policy, the deforestation rate has fallen by 71%. If Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is re-elected president on Sunday, the country could reach zero deforestation by 2030. The arc of the moral universe seems to have bent towards justice. Continue reading…

The 16-year-old died following a tree-cutting accident while visiting family in Arkansas. His father was able to move the tree from on top of him, but the impact and injuries were too severe. The post High Schooler Dies in Tree Cutting Accident appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

In 2022, I helped push through the international agreement to protect biodiversity. I know there is always a reason to stall, but ministers at Cop17 must honour that pledgeWhen I was five, property developers came to cut down the woods behind my home in La Tuque, Quebec. My mother encouraged me to climb one of the trees in protest, then told the developers, straight-faced, that there was nothing she could do when they asked her to get me down. A few days later, the tree was cut down anyway.I thought about that tree in the early hours of a freezing Montreal morning in December 2022, as the gavel came down on a global agreement between nearly 200 countries to halt and reverse the loss of nature by 2030. I thought about how important nature is for our health, our food security and our economies, but also how much passion there is around protecting it, and how it has the power to inspire people all around the world. Continue reading…

Government attorneys sparred with Judge Ana C. Reyes over testimony by several government witnesses about the chain of decisions surrounding East Potomac Golf Links.

The man was reportedly cutting trees on the property Monday morning when he became pinned by a fallen tree. After being unable to contact him, his family called emergency officials who helped track his location. He suffered crushing injuries and later died. The post Funeral Home Owner Pinned by Tree While Cutting appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

20 October 1926: After the long dry spell the wood was the place to enjoy itNEW FOREST: After the long dry spell how good the damp earth smells. The wood was the place to enjoy it. It is still very green. The colours are slow in coming this year. Even now there is more colour on the ground than in the trees. The fern has run through gold and copper to rusty red. Here and there a bramble flames, and bilberry patches are shot with crimson. The green tracks were spotted with fungi, white and yellow, brown and purply red. And pale yellow tormentil trailed across the grass. The white beam has lost its berries, which hung in scarlet bunches a week ago. All that are left hang by ones or twos or are scattered on the ground.Under the Spanish chestnuts the prickly balls lay open, star-shaped, showing their white lining with the shiny nuts up-standing in their places or spilt upon the ground. It was very still in the wood – outside noises were cut off; one’s steps made no sound on the sodden leaves and grass. Once I heard the gurgling of a little watercourse that had long been dry. Twice from the tree-tops came the sudden clatter of a wood pigeon getting under weigh; and that was all. Continue reading…

The city’s trees are under threat from disease, pests and climate change, but there’s limits on how much can be done to push back against these forces of nature. The group wants Winnipeg to put a …

El Niño is fueling a dangerous cascade of wildfires across the tropics, with the Amazon rainforest now experiencing widespread burning and scientists warning that the worst may still be ahead. NASA researchers are uncovering dozens of previously undetected fires, suggesting the destruction could be even more extensive than satellite records show.

Scientists have discovered that some forest soils are becoming surprisingly better at removing methane from the atmosphere as temperatures rise and rainfall declines. A study spanning up to 24 years found methane absorption increasing by an average of 3% annually, challenging previous predictions about climate change’s effects on forests.

Esopus Spitzenburg, Cornish Gilliflower, Hubbardston Nonesuch: Antique varieties, with names recalling Dickensian villains, are packed with fresh flavor and texture.

The ruling barred major modifications at the D.C. course while a federal judge seeks testimony from Interior Department officials about whether they ignored a court order.

During a four-hour hearing, a federal judge demanded answers from the Trump administration about who authorized the removal of hundreds of trees at the East Potomac Golf Links.

An open-source app has thousands of Berliners adopting and watering city trees as if they were their pets, helping keep the city green amid repeated summer heatwaves. Gieß den Kiez translates to “water your neighborhood,” and offers users a map of the city with each one of the roughly 900,000 street trees of Berlin accessible as The post ‘Like Caring for a Pet’ – the App That Lets You Know if Your Neighborhood Tree Is Thirsty appeared first on Good News Network.

The National Park Service notified a court of the plan as part of continuing litigation over the president’s proposal to create a “champion-level” course.

A person in Florida and another in Alabama lost their lives as the fast-moving storm came ashore along the Gulf states.

Predatory wasps are hijacking shelters built by tropical trees for their ant defenders, potentially disrupting an ancient partnership that protects the plants from hungry insects. The takeover is far more common in disturbed landscapes such as oil palm plantations and could have lasting consequences for forest recovery and evolution.

ISA offers a variety of educational materials and products to help arborists improve their arboricultural knowledge and experience. Every month we will feature a product or group of products. This …

The crew called 911 after seeing worker get shocked by a power line. The employee made contact with the power line on his right thumb and was complaining of pain. A medical helicopter was called. The post Tree Trimmer Makes Contact with Energized Conductor appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

A 30-year forestry experiment in Australia found that heavily thinned mountain ash forests grew unusually large trees while recovering enough carbon to match or exceed untouched areas. The results suggest carefully managed thinning could support timber production, wildlife habitat, and carbon storage at the same time.

A 30-year forestry experiment in Australia found that heavily thinned mountain ash forests grew unusually large trees while recovering enough carbon to match or exceed untouched areas. The results suggest carefully managed thinning could support timber production, wildlife habitat, and carbon storage at the same time.

Mysterious 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils may be the oldest evidence of an animal using Earth’s magnetic field like a built-in GPS. Their sophisticated magnetic structure could have helped an unknown ocean creature navigate thousands of kilometers with surprising precision.

3 years on from the illegal felling of Britain’s famous Sycamore Gap tree, new aerial images reveal how the stump is flourishing, and the basal sprouts that emerged are growing fast. For those who didn’t read or weren’t aware, one of the UK’s most famous trees—a 150-year-old sycamore growing in a gap along the Roman-era The post ‘Flourishing’ Sycamore Gap Tree Has Ring of New Shoots Already 3-Feet Tall appeared first on Good News Network.

Scientists have identified two new species of large Australian stick insects, including one that lays extraordinary “lidded” eggs never before recorded in the group. The discovery also revealed that a familiar stick insect had been misidentified for decades, showing how much biodiversity may still be hiding in plain sight.

A new protective fabric boosted strawberry yields by as much as 3.56 times while blocking insects and still allowing sunlight, rain, and airflow to reach the plants. Originally inspired by research on military clothing, Plant Armor could also help farms reduce pesticide and water use.

Mulberry compounds may reshape the gut microbiome in ways that support intestinal health and metabolism, with some combinations showing especially strong effects in animal studies. However, the results vary depending on the plant part and processing method, and the benefits have yet to be confirmed in humans.

The October issue of  Arborist News  is available to read online. The articles featured in this issue include: The Beginning of the International Tree Climbing Championship by John Ball, PhD …

A  landscaper was electrocuted when working on a tree. A downed limb struck an electrical wire, energized the tree he was working on, and then killed him. The post Landscaper Dies After Power Line Energizes Tree appeared first on Tree Care Industry Magazine.

In Portugal, a 150-year-old business making corks is showing that it’s absolutely possible to teach an old dog new tricks. Having cultivated cork oak trees since the time of the monarchy, Corticeira Amorim have popped open the potential of this humble material, transforming it into a sustainable piece of sophisticated technology that can line the The post Portuguese Company Turns Cork Wood into Limitless Material, Even to Insulate Spacecraft appeared first on Good News Network.

Some tropical trees have evolved a clever way to survive drought by taking in carbon dioxide at night, allowing them to keep their pores closed during the hot daytime and conserve water. By comparing three Clusia species, researchers discovered that this water-saving form of photosynthesis, known as CAM, did not arise through a single evolutionary change. Instead, ancient genome duplications followed by millions of years of genetic reshuffling produced strikingly different strategies, from strong CAM to stress-triggered and hybrid forms.

A Yellowstone super-eruption would begin not with a sudden surprise, but with weeks of increasingly alarming warning signs such as migrating earthquake swarms, rapid ground uplift, changing geysers, and rising volcanic gases. In a worst-case scenario, those signals could culminate in a VEI 8 eruption that blasts ash tens of kilometers into the atmosphere, unleashes deadly pyroclastic flows, buries parts of the western United States in ash, and cripples transportation, electricity, water systems, agriculture, and communications across much of North America.

A large Amazon study suggests the most powerful conservation move may be protecting the forests that are already standing. Preventing damage from wildfires and logging delivered the greatest biodiversity benefits and nearly matched deforestation prevention for protecting carbon. Restoration remains important, particularly where forests have already been heavily cleared, but it was more expensive and less effective on its own.

A chemical that stops drywood termites from building new exoskeletons killed about 95% of colonies in testing, offering a potentially safer alternative to traditional fumigation. Because termites eventually have no choice but to molt, the treatment turns a normal stage of their life cycle into a fatal weakness.

Insects quietly hold much of the natural world together, yet conservation efforts are overlooking the tropical regions where more than 80 percent of insect species live. Monash University researchers have developed a global framework to close this gap by combining scientific studies with museum collections, local expertise, citizen science, social media records, and new technologies.

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East Antarctica gained an astonishing 695 billion tons of ice between 2021 and 2023, temporarily slowing Antarctica’s long-term decline. Researchers found that warming thousands of miles away in the tropical ocean altered atmospheric circulation and funneled moisture toward the continent, triggering exceptionally heavy snowfall.

Indonesia’s dangerous peat fires are surging early in the 2026 fire season as a strengthening El Niño and severe drought dry out wetlands that can burn underground for months. These slow smoldering fires are especially destructive because they release far more fine particles and several pollutants than typical tropical forest fires, while thick smoke can make them difficult for satellites to detect.

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Ancient teeth and human DNA are revealing a surprising history of insect eating. Modern humans in northern Eurasia appear to have eaten insects only occasionally, while Neanderthals may have consumed them much more regularly. Populations near the tropics also retained genes that make insect exoskeletons easier to digest.

Ancient fossils suggest insects conquered land through a long amphibious phase rather than making an abrupt jump from water to dry ground. A newly identified 324-million-year-old species still carried paddle-like abdominal limbs, revealing an evolutionary bridge between aquatic ancestors and modern six-legged insects.

From the Wall Street Journal comes the story of a goldilocks discovery: a potential replacement for wood fiber that goes into making tissues, toilet paper, and paper towels. It’s called hesperaloe, and like the namesake of its last 4 letters, presents as a long-leaved succulent that grows in arid environments. Kimberly-Clark, the American firm which The post Company Aims for ‘Moonshot’ Replacement for Trees in Paper Products with Humble Desert Plant appeared first on Good News Network.

Scientists have long thought an unusual genetic system helped ants, bees, and wasps evolve their extraordinary social colonies. A massive new analysis suggests that genetics alone can’t explain it—and the real secret may lie in other traits unique to these insects.

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Historic wildfires scorched huge areas of Spain and France, with one Spanish blaze burning an area about the size of New York City and a French fire generating a rare, towering fire cloud. A dangerous combination of lush winter growth, severe heat, drought, and strong winds helped turn the landscape into explosive fuel.

Taiwan’s steep, remote mountains have sheltered extraordinary forests containing hundreds of giant Taiwania firs. After years of difficult expeditions, LiDAR mapping, and citizen-science detective work, researchers discovered an 84.1-meter (276-foot) tree, the tallest known in East Asia. They also found dense “temples of giants” where dozens of enormous trees grow together. These ancient forests rank among the world’s most carbon-rich ecosystems.

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More than 150 years after Darwin’s finches helped reshape biology, Galápagos plants are exposing another evolutionary surprise. Giant daisies repeatedly developed similar heat-tolerant leaf shapes, but each lineage used a different combination of genes. Researchers also found major genetic differences among isolated populations, suggesting new species may be forming right now.

A sprinkle of crushed basalt rock has turned out to be the fairy dust that newly planted forests need to develop faster and absorb more carbon. That’s what scientists from Imperial College London are reporting in a new study from the largest field experiment studying how “enhanced weathering” and soil microbiome enrichment can potentially improve The post Spreading Crushed Rock on Newly-Planted Forests Boosts Carbon Storing and Nutrients appeared first on Good News Network.

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