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trees
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A sliver of lab-grown wood has been made from stem cells
Plant stem cells growing in culture New Dawn Bio What may be the world’s first piece of lab-grown…
Google Street View helps map how 600,000 trees grow down to the limb
Predicting how trees grow could help guide planting efforts in urban areas such as New York City Yukinori…
The COP16 biodiversity summit was a big flop for protecting nature
Police stand guard in front of a hotel a day ahead of the COP16 United Nations biodiversity conference…
Why we may be getting urban tree planting all wrong
York Minster, York, Yorkshire, England, UK Neale Clark/robertharding/Alamy I recently moved back to my hometown, York, a small…
Becoming Earth review: A dramatic twist to the Gaia hypothesis
Seoul’s gingko trees help absorb the carbon dioxide produced by traffic khanh nghia tran/Alamy Becoming EarthFerris Jabr (Picador…
Heart of an Oak review: Intimate nature documentary is an ode to a tree
Heart of an Oak follows this 210-year-old tree and its inhabitants through the seasons Icon Film Distribution Heart…
Midwood: We have discovered an entirely new kind of wood
A scanning electron microscope image of nanoscale wood structures in tulip trees Jan J Lyczakowski and Raymond Wightman…
Overheated trees are contributing to urban air pollution
A jacaranda tree outside the Los Angeles courthouse James Brown / Alamy Air pollution in Los Angeles from…
Could we live in tree cities grown from giant sequoia in the future?
Oregon sequoia forest, USA E.BISSIRIEIX/Shutterstock In the second half of the 21st century, the first living city was…
English oaks can withstand warming – but other trees will struggle
English oak trees may be more resilient to warmer climates than other species Greens and Blues/Shutterstock The English…