National Geographic
The grand old trees of the world are dying, leaving forests younger and shorter
7 min · · The effects on wildlife and the ability of forests to store CO2 from fossil fuels could be enormous. · Shared by 176, including Neil Hart 💙, Katja Evertz, Jane, Liv 😷
Literary Hub
Birding While Black
8 min · · “Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root.” –Abel Meeropol (aka Lewis Allan), “Strange Fruit” It’s only 9:06 a.m. and I think I might get hanged today. * * * * T… · Shared by 109, including Riley Black 🦕🏳️⚧️, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Liv 😷
The Guardian
How urban planners' preference for male trees has made your hay fever worse
4 min · · Horticulturist urges better gender mix of city trees to mitigate rising asthma and CO2 pollution levels · Shared by 21, including Liv 😷, Guy Longworth
icelandreview.com
Forest Service Recommends Hugging Trees While You Can’t Hug Others
· The Icelandic Forestry Service is encouraging people to hug trees while social distancing measures prevent them from hugging other people, RÚV reports. Forest rangers in the Hallormsstaður National… · Shared by 19, including Matthew Bishop, Liv 😷, Emily Atkin
emergencemagazine.org
Among the Trees – Emergence Magazine
11+ min · · In this extended meditation on the relationship between place and intimacy, the body and the word, Carl Phillips walks among trees to explore what can and cannot be known. · Shared by 110, including Jane, Liv 😷, Nrupal Akolkar
github.com
alvinwan/neural-backed-decision-trees
· Making decision trees competitive with neural networks on CIFAR10, CIFAR100, TinyImagenet200, Imagenet - alvinwan/neural-backed-decision-trees · Shared by 14, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Liv 😷, Matt Shaffer
Inside Climate News
‘We Need to Hear These Poor Trees Scream’: Unchecked Global Warming Means Big Trouble for Forests
7 min · · New studies show drought and heat waves will cause massive die-offs, killing most trees alive today. · Shared by 33, including Jerry Saltz, Liv 😷, David Wallace-Wells, Thomas Power, Katja Evertz
Fast Company
These drones can plant 40,000 trees in a month. By 2028, they’ll have planted 1 billion
4 min · · We need to massively reforest the planet, in a very short period of time. Flash Forest’s drones can plant trees a lot faster than humans. · Shared by 171, including BrendanEich, Liv 😷, Neil Hart 💙, Faik Ersoy, Dr Joana Casaca Lemos, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Dan Hill, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Rick Powell, Katja Evertz, Marius Bleuer
Brain Pickings
Wander: Natascha McElhone Reads Hermann Hesse’s 100-Year-Old Love Letter to Trees in a Virtual Mental Health Walk Through Kew Gardens
4 min · · “In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfill… · Shared by 61, including Liv 😷, Charles Duhigg, Neil Hart 💙, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire
The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
Plants safely store toxic mercury. Bushfires and climate change bring it back into our environment
3 min · · Plants can store mercury and keep it from contaminating waterways, air and soils. Unfortunately, that mercury is released when plants burn. · Shared by 11, including Liv 😷
ABC News
The burning bush is talking
· Just before the fire hit, the trees' leaves turned red and fell to the ground, and it left Adrian wondering - did they know they were just about to burn? · Shared by 8, including Liv 😷
Vox
These 3 supertrees can protect us from climate collapse
1 min · · But can we protect them? · Shared by 173, including Thomas Power, Rico Grimm, Gustaf Alströmer 🇺🇦, Jane, Liv 😷, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Hampus Jakobsson, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Matthias Lampe, Brooks Rainwater, Nadja Popovich, Kainaz Amaria, Katja Evertz, Marc Benioff, Faik Ersoy
ABC News
Eucalypts: 10 things you may not know about an iconic Australian
8 min · · Eucalypts dominate our landscapes from the bush to our backyards, paddocks, parks and pavements. But how much do you really know about them · Shared by 7, including Liv 😷
National Geographic
How trees secretly talk to each other in the forest
1 min · · What do trees talk about? In the Douglas fir forests of Canada, see how trees “talk” to each other by forming underground symbiotic relationships—called mycorrhizae—with fungi to relay stress signals and share resources with one another. · Shared by 21, including David Guttenfelder, justin caouette, Liv 😷, K. Williams, Steve Maraboli
The Guardian
'Once they're gone, they're gone': the fight to save the giant sequoia
4 min · · A conservation group plans to buy the largest privately owned sequoia grove as the climate crisis threatens the species’ future · Shared by 36, including Liv 😷, Thomas Power, Katja Evertz