Like a nice wool blanket can help a human baby stay warm and healthy, so too does a baby white spruce get protection from a blanket of snow. At the same time, by preventing the chill of winter from reaching the ground, the snow blanket helps thaw permafrost, or frozen soil packed with ancient plant … Read more
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Climate change is already taking a severe toll on Cape Town, contributing to worsening droughts that threaten to leave the city’s taps dry. In response, conservationists here are frantically chopping down trees — and are even contemplating burning them down. While preserving the world’s forests is widely considered essential to … Read more
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Roughly half of the land targeted by a major tech-backed forest restoration campaign in Africa was never meant to be forest, according to a new analysis. Planting trees in the identified area could actually harm grasslands and savannas that may have been inadvertently mislabeled as “forests” in need of help, the report concludes. The paper, … Read more
Trees at more than 2,000 homes in a California city will be stripped of their fruit, according to a state agency. The “large-scale fruit removal,” which is slated to begin in late January, is set for a designated area in Redlands in San Bernardino County, the California Department of Food and Agriculture said in a … Read more
NAKIVALE, Uganda — Enock Twagirayesu was seeking sanctuary when he and his family fled violence in Burundi, and they found it in Uganda, the small East African nation that has absorbed thousands of refugees from unsettled neighbors. Twagirayesu’s family has grown from two children when they arrived more than a decade ago to eight now, … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave LONDON — Christmas is over, but for some the festive treats are stretching into the new year. Elephants at Tierpark Berlin zoo in Germany are enjoying munching on Christmas leftovers after the delivery Thursday of crunchy, unsold Christmas trees, in what has become an annual event. The … Read more
TALLINN, Estonia — Christmas trees started appearing in Central Europe and the Baltic States, including Estonia, as early as the Middle Ages and have now become traditional across much of the world. Dec. 22 is the shortest day of the year and in Estonia, as in many parts of the world, trees covered with lights … Read more
Kim Kardashian has revealed her awe-inspiring Christmas decor, featuring 100 lit up trees in her mansion Kim Kardashian has gone all out to transform her $60 million California mansion into a magical Christmas “forest.” The SKIMS mogul took to Instagram to share glimpses of the over-the-top tree display, estimated to include over 100 real evergreens … Read more
Excess has always been the norm in the realm of the Kardashian-Jenner Clan, but this Christmas, Kim Kardashian is redefining opulence with a complete forest of trees. The large amount of trees is a nod to the festive competition between her sisters, and the reality TV star decided to fill her hallways with an entire … Read more
According to Blom, whose group favors thinning dense stands of young trees and reducing accumulations of vegetation and woody debris from the forest floor through prescribed burns or mechanical methods, there are about 26,000 acres of land to be cleared in all 80 sequoia groves on federal land, with some 8,000 acres already treated. On … Read more