Ash dieback breakthrough
Ash dieback breakthrough https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50420207?fbclid=IwAR0MhOt486CSebYwI1om3MxSIYtYXqyZvfyeLB0jNBNc0a07oogDg2DYXYY
With a little bit of help from my friends
With a little bit of help from my friends We all need a little help form our friends, and trees are no exception. Did you know they form a ‘marriage’ with soil living fungi? (These fungi are called mycorrhizal fungi) The fungi are much better than the tree at taking up plant nutrients from the…
How trees talk to each other…
How trees talk to each other… “A forest is much more than what you see,” says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests led to an astounding discovery — trees talk, often and over vast distances. To find out more, let us introduce Suzanne Simard
New UN report highlights changes we need to make
New UN report highlights changes we need to make A new report by the UN recommends that we must urgently change our diets and stop destroying land so it can absorb more carbon if there is any hope of avoiding catastrophic levels of global warming. A UN advisor commented, ‘Earth has never felt smaller, its natural ecosystems…
Trees can save the world
Trees can save the world Professor Tom Crowther, whose work specialises in ecosystem ecology, has calculated the number of trees on the planet, three trillion, or 3 000 000 000 040 to be precise. Tom also calculates that we need to plant 3 000 000 000 trees by 2050, or 90 million trees a year…