euronews
A prehistoric plant is being ‘loved to death’, crime analysts warn
3 min · · Horticultural criminals are pushing wild cycads to the brink in South Africa, where they are seen as status symbols. · Shared by 13, including Perez Hilton, Liv 😷
sierraclub.org
Rich Man, Big Tree
4 min · · The documentary, screening at the DC Environmental Film Festival, raises questions about nature and who gets to have it. · Shared by 6, including Liv 😷
nature
Why Nature needs to cover politics now more than ever
4 min · · Science and politics are inseparable — and Nature will be publishing more politics news, comment and primary research in the coming weeks and months. · Shared by 90, including Azeem Azhar, Liv 😷, Paul Graham, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙
The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
Photos from the field: capturing the grandeur and heartbreak of Tasmania’s giant trees
5 min · · These trees are too important to be destroyed in the name of the forestry industry. This is why my husband Steve Pearce and I climb, explore and photograph them. · Shared by 9, including Liv 😷
The Guardian
YouTube stars raise over $6m to plant trees around the world
2 min · · More than 600 creators and social media influencers join campaign to plant 20m trees · Shared by 39, including Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Dean Anthony Gratton, Liv 😷, Faik Ersoy
WIRED
All the Trees Will Die, and Then So Will You
7 min · · A beetle-and-fungus combo is about to wipe out millions of Southern California trees—and that means people's lives are at stake, too. · Shared by 35, including Kat, Tom Connor, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Tris Hussey, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Liv 😷, Thomas Power, Botany One, Chung
Nautilus Magazine
Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees
11+ min · · Consider a forest: One notices the trunks, of course, and the canopy. If a few roots project artfully above the soil and fallen leaves,… · Shared by 96, including ben, Anita Leirfall, Liv 😷, John Hagel, Matthias Lampe, Jane, Vikram Dutt
teamtrees.org
Help Us Plant 20 Million Trees
5 min · · The official site of #TeamTrees. One dollar plants a tree... · Shared by 115, including Max Niederhofer, Lucy Moon 🌙, Nils Hitze, Tested, Kirill Osenkov 🇺🇦, Simon Carless, Nicky Case · 🐘 mas.to/@ncase, Simone Giertz, CyberCodeTwins, Rosh Sillars, Liv 😷, Thomas Power, Vincenzo Tremonte, Rene Ritchie, Jeff Atwood, Lessig 🇺🇦, Roberto Blake 🇺🇸🇵🇦 Creative Entrepreneur, Joe Lencioni, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Remo Uherek
The Atlantic
People Are Writing Thousands of Emails to Trees
18+ min · · When the city of Melbourne linked email accounts to trees so people could report problems, they wrote love letters to the trees instead. · Shared by 49, including ❤️ Umair, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Liv 😷, Esther Schindler, Henning von Vogelsang, Galen King
lethalbrains.com
Learn ML Algorithms by coding: Decision Trees
9 min · · Implementation of Decision Trees · Shared by 26, including Liv 😷, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷
The New York Times
German Forest Ranger Finds That Trees Have Social Networks, Too
7 min · · Peter Wohlleben, a career ranger, has topped best-seller lists with “The Hidden Life of Trees,” describing trees as social beings that communicate on the “Wood Wide Web.” · Shared by 48, including Malik El Bay 🕊🔰🇲🇦, Liv 😷, Ryan Boren, Dave de Céspedes, Serge K. Keller ❦, Keith Frankish
Brain Pickings
The Fascinating Science of How Trees Communicate, Animated
1 min · · “Trees are the foundation of forests, but a forest is much more than what you see.” · Shared by 62, including Liv 😷, Elizabeth Stokoe, LARRY ELKAN, Christina, John Hagel, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Esther Schindler, Vikram Dutt
Quartz
A biologist believes that trees speak a language we can learn
6 min · · Humans have long recognized the song of trees. · Shared by 59, including Liv 😷, Jane, Dominik Grolimund, Thomas Power, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Rajesh Kasturirangan
secretldn.com
London’s New Artificial Trees Guzzle As Much Pollution As 275 Regular Trees
1 min · · Leytonstone has some excellent new arrivals, a pair of City Trees that eat pollution, produce oxygen, and clean up the capital's filthy air. · Shared by 249, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Katja Evertz, MΛRC VIDΛL, Stephan Woodtli, Nils Hitze, Oliver Ewinger, Thomas Pleil, Shawn Venasse, justin caouette, Liv 😷, kp, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Kat, Philipp Laurim, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Josep M. Ganyet, Jane, Gregg Caruso, Leo Blazquez
CNN
Scientists uncover a 60,000-year-old forest underwater and think its preserved trees may help pioneer new medicines
3 min · · Nearly 60,000 years ago, as prehistoric humans just started venturing out of Africa, a forest of cypress trees grew on the banks of a river near the Gulf of Mexico. As the trees grew old, they fell… · Shared by 14, including Liv 😷
Insider
A stunning video shows a group of deer relaxing under the cherry blossom trees in a Japanese park
1 min · · Japanese photographer Kazuki Ikeda captured video footage of wild sika deer relaxing by cherry blossom trees at Nara Park in Nara, Japan. · Shared by 21, including Mathew Ingram, Antonio Vieira Santos, Liv 😷, Nige Roberts-Willson, Elinor Stutz