New species of wood-boring insect discovered in Brooklyn
A new insect species was recently discovered during a tree survey at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. The 4-millimeter-long Wood-Boring Jewel Beetle
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Author: Allen Benson
A decade long study shows that acid rain may make trees thirstier
A forest has been watered by acid rain may be less able to quench its thirst. Those are the results
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Nonnative Callery pear trees are showing up in US forests
A popular imported tree that became a neighborhood favorite in the 1990s now threatens to crowd out native trees in
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A tree stump that should be dead is still alive because of its neighbors
Within a shrouded New Zealand forest, a tree stump keeps itself alive by holding onto the roots of its neighboring
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California’s forest die-off caused by depletion of deep-soil water
A catastrophic forest die-off in California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range in 2015-2016 was caused by the inability of trees to
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DTE Energy partners with a prison to teach inmates line clearance tree trimming
Facing a shortage of skilled laborers, DTE Energy has partnered with Parnall Correctional Facility to teach inmates how to clear
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Britain’s oldest tree may be dying from trophy hunting tourists
The Fortingall Yew in Perthshire is thought to be between 3,000 – 5,000 years old, but environmentalists are saying the
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The Treaty Oak was once poisoned and a whole nation almost lost hope
In the spring of 1989 John Giedraitis, arborist for the city of Austin, noticed some dead grass under the 500-year-old
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The state of NJ will clear cut 16 acres of White Pines in order to save the forest
On April 12th, The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection was granted approval to a plan to clear-cut 16.4 acres
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