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Dutch Artist Thijs Biersteker Gives Trees a Voice—in Lights

Dutch Artist Thijs Biersteker Gives Trees a Voice—in Lights

By Clara Chaisson Dutch interactive artist Thijs Biersteker is something like a real-life Lorax—except instead of speaking for the trees, he equips them with the technology to speak for themselves. Trees are among our most diligent and prolific data loggers (no pun intended), recording a wealth of information about the world around them in the […]

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    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 […]

    Trees Are Migrating West to Escape Climate Change

    Trees Are Migrating West to Escape Climate Change

    By Marlene Cimons An individual tree has roots and, of course, it doesn’t move. But trees, as a species, do move over time. They migrate in response to environmental challenges, especially climate change. Surprisingly, they don’t all go to the Poles, where it is cooler. As it turns out, more of them head west, where […]

    Long-Term Risks of GE Trees Remain Unanswered

    Long-Term Risks of GE Trees Remain Unanswered

    The following is a joint statement from Global Justice Ecology Project, Indigenous Environmental Network, Rural Coalition, Biofuelwatch and Canadian Biotechnology Action Network. In an apparent effort to allay serious public and scientific concerns about contamination threats from genetically engineered (GE) trees, on Aug. 3 researchers at Oregon State University claimed they had genetically engineered sterility […]

    Pakistan’s Next Prime Minister Wants to Plant 10 Billion Trees

    Pakistan’s Next Prime Minister Wants to Plant 10 Billion Trees

    Imran Khan, who’s set to become Pakistan’s next prime minister, has a goal of planting 10 billion trees across the country in five years, Climate Change News reported. The former cricket star’s political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), won last week’s elections and campaigned on several environmental initiatives. This ambitious pledge builds on Khan’s Billion Tree […]

    Africa’s Iconic Baobabs Are Dying, Including World’s OIdest Flowering Tree

    Africa’s Iconic Baobabs Are Dying, Including World’s OIdest Flowering Tree

    When researchers set out to investigate the structure, growth and age of Africa’s iconic baobab trees—the largest and longest-living flowering trees in the world—they received a devastating surprise. Many of the oldest, largest baobabs were dead or dying. The final study, published in Nature Plants Monday, reported that nine of the 13 oldest and five […]