Who cut down these public trees in King County? Lawsuit targets property owners
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City Lights Extend Growing Season for Urban Trees
From New York to Paris to Beijing, urban trees are enjoying an extra-long growing season, a new study finds.The reason, ...
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Ash trees are rapidly evolving some resistance to ash dieback disease todayheadline
Some ash trees have genetic variants that confer partial resistance to ash diebackFLPA / Alamy Ash trees in the UK ...
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Offsetting global fossil fuel stores by planting trees is impossible todayheadline
A tree-planting project in British Columbia, CanadaJames MacDonald/Bloomberg via Getty Images It would be nearly impossible to plant enough trees ...
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Why a Minneapolis neighborhood sharpens a giant pencil every year
MINNEAPOLIS -- More than 1,000 people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening ...
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Wildfire threatens Joshua Trees in area park critical to species’ survival
A fire ignited in the Covington Flats area of Joshua Tree National Park on Friday afternoon and burned 165 acres ...
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Severe thunderstorms down trees, knock out power to thousands across parts of Great Lakes region
Storms accompanied by deep, booming thunder, lightning displays and powerful winds swept through parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, northern Indiana and ...
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How Herbicide Drift from Farms Is Harming Trees in Midwest
Fifteen years ago, Roger Beadles began noticing that the leaves on his oaks didn’t look right. They were small and ...
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Police arrest man accused of felling Downtown L.A. trees with chainsaw
The Los Angeles Police Department arrested a man on Tuesday who was captured on surveillance footage using a chainsaw to ...
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Vandals chainsaw dozens of trees across downtown L.A.
L.A.’s fragile urban canopy was dealt a vicious blow this weekend when a chainsaw-wielding vandal cut down a number of ...
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