Trees & Forestry

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This image of the trees in which tamanu oil is derived from was made available by Flickr and used by EcoWorld under the authors’ use [...]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 18 (UPI) — The pine beetle infestation of western Canadian forests is expected to close at least 16 major sawmills and cut exports by half, a report said Thursday.
The International Wood Markets Group forecast released in Vancouver, British Columbia, said losses due to the insects would also cause lumber prices [...]

BOSTON, March 16 (UPI) — A NASA-funded study contradicts a previous U.N. report that the Amazon rain forests thrive during long droughts.
The Boston University study, using NASA satellite data, concluded Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected by a once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying nor thriving, contrary to a report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel [...]

CHIRK, Wales, Feb. 10 (UPI) — A Welsh oak tree, already more than 300 years old when King Henry II spared it in 1165, couldn’t withstand the unusually cold winter of 2010, locals say.
Mark Williams, a historian of the Wrexham area in North Wales, told the BBC he and Deryn Poppit visited the tree [...]