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A Shopper’s Guide to Home Tissue Products

A Shopper’s Guide to Home Tissue Products

By Patrick Rogers In the U.S., we consume more than 15 billion pounds of tissue each year—more than 50 pounds per person. It’s taking a major toll on forests like the Canadian boreal. Few people give much thought to how their toilet paper is made. And to be fair, there’s nothing particularly engaging in the […]

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    A Mysterious Leaf Disease Is Killing Beech Trees—and It’s Spreading

    A Mysterious Leaf Disease Is Killing Beech Trees—and It’s Spreading

    If you’ve seen lovers’ initials carved in a tree, it’s probably a beech. The iconic species—known for its smooth, delicate bark—is not just a favorite canvas for bark carvers, they provide shelter and food for a large range of wildlife, including birds, squirrels and bears. But scientists are raising flags on a mysterious, deadly and […]

    Tree ‘Crop Circles’ Emerge in Japan, Results From 1973 Forestry Experiment

    Tree ‘Crop Circles’ Emerge in Japan, Results From 1973 Forestry Experiment

    Photos of two “crop circles” of trees in Japan’s Miyazaki prefecture have emerged online and on social media, causing netizens to marvel at the eerie forest formation. Turns out, these cedar circles—which you can see on Google Earth—are the result of a forestry experiment conducted about 45 years ago. The Japanese design and culture blog […]

    Earth Is ‘Breathing’ in This Eerie Video

    Earth Is ‘Breathing’ in This Eerie Video

    In a recent video filmed in Sacre-Coeur, Quebec, Mother Nature appears to be gasping for air. Even the surrounding trees are struggling to stand under the literal force of nature. Is Earth breathing a collective sigh? To be fair, she’s had a pretty rough 2018 after a string of record-breaking hurricanes, destructive wildfires and a […]

    Trump Plan to Ramp Up Fracking, Mining in National Forests Threatens Climate

    Trump Plan to Ramp Up Fracking, Mining in National Forests Threatens Climate

    The Trump administration’s plan to make it easier for industry to frack and mine in national forests would endanger the climate, wildlife and watersheds, the Center for Biological Diversity and other conservation groups said in comments submitted Monday to the U.S. Forest Service. “The Forest Service shouldn’t be complicit in the Trump administration’s assault on […]

    WATCH: Puerto Rico Planting 750,000 Trees to Defend Land From Natural Disasters

    WATCH: Puerto Rico Planting 750,000 Trees to Defend Land From Natural Disasters

    September 20 marked the one-year anniversary of the most devastating and deadly natural disasters in 100 years of U.S. history—Hurricane Maria. Today, Puerto Rico continues to face both challenges, such as Tropical Storm Kirk landing today, and opportunities. Many wonder how Puerto Rico is doing so EcoWatch teamed up with the non-profit Para la Naturaleza […]

    New Tree Species Discovered — and Declared Extinct

    New Tree Species Discovered — and Declared Extinct

    By John R. Platt Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. In 1951 a member of the Nigerian Forestry Service collected specimens of a rare tree in the highlands of northwestern Cameroon. It was soon identified as a member of the Vepris genus, a group of 80 or so large tree species […]