Do bears fish in the woods? Russian woman’s giant animal companion she rescued from a safari park loves going fishing with her in Russian forest’s lakes Russian Veronika Dichka adopted Archie, a brown bear, from a safari park that was running out of business The pair have been pictured together fishing on a lake in their … Read more
£145m fund for trees as Apple goes green: Tech giant boosts its eco credentials with investment in forests around the world The Restore Fund hopes to remove one million tons of carbon dioxide annually Apple said protecting environment and making money ‘not mutually exclusive’ The Daily Mail’s Be a Tree Angel campaign raised £1.5million to … Read more
£145m fund for trees as Apple goes green: Tech giant boosts its eco credentials with investment in forests around the world The Restore Fund hopes to remove one million tons of carbon dioxide annually Apple said protecting environment and making money ‘not mutually exclusive’ The Daily Mail’s Be a Tree Angel campaign raised £1.5million to … Read more
Rising sea levels are transforming the once lush woodlands along North Carolina‘s coast into grayish-colored, lifeless trunks known as ‘ghost forests.’ The leafless, limbless trees cover about 11 percent of the state’s Alligator National Wildlife Refuge that what was once thriving with healthy forests. The change is caused by massive amounts of seawater creeping inland … Read more
Luxurious white truffles could grow in British forests as French scientists make breakthrough that would free the £2,500-a-lb delicacies from just their Italian homelands The fungus is frequently described as being the finest available on the planet Chalky, wet regions ideal for them to develop, which suits areas of UK and US Saplings brought to … Read more
Lockdown visitors ruin one of Britain’s most important ancient forests by holding weddings, leaving litter and stripping moss from trees for their hanging baskets Devon County Council say visitors are ‘ruining’ Wistman’s Wood on Dartmoor People have held weddings, left litter and stripped moss from dwarf oak trees Area likely to be left-over from ancient forest … Read more
Less than half of the world’s forests are unaffected by human activity, according to a new study. An international team of 47 scientists reveals only 40.5 per cent of the world’s forests have ‘ecosystem integrity’ – meaning they’re free from human modification. Human modification includes industrial-scale logging, fragmentation by infrastructure, farming, urbanisation, over-hunting and wood fuel … Read more
What a miraculous year 2020 is proving to be — for trees. As the season of storms rolls in, with all the lashing power and threat we have come to associate with extreme weather, it is tempting to meditate moodily on nature’s violence and destruction. But the news from our fields and forests is that … Read more
Playing among forests and parklands — rather in than concrete and gravel yards — helps children to foster a stronger immune system, a study has concluded. Previous studies have proposed that city-dwellers may be at a greater risk of immune-mediated diseases thanks to a lack of exposure to diverse microbiota. This fails to challenge the … Read more
Fiery red ‘vampire plants’ found around the world feast on other vegetation by wrapping its suckers around the host’s roots Researchers have described the Langsdorffia plant in a new study The plants, deemed parasitic, attach to other vegetation and suck out nutrients It wraps sucker-like roots around the host underground to feed The plants also secrete … Read more