It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees
From mangrove vandalism to a tree-hugging comedian, here's your tree news from around the world this week:
- Half a billion and counting: 500 million trees in Texas died this year as a result of the Lone Star State's epic drought (Your Houston News)
- Comedian Jerry Stiller has a favorite tree in Riverside Park (New York Times' City Room blog)
- More myrrh? Trees that yield frankincense are threatened from pests and unsustainable harvesting (UPI)
- Someone in Australia is clandestinely poisoning mangroves to improve his/her private view of Canada Bay (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Gift-giving got you stumped? (Get it?) If it can smooth out some kinks, this new website is a cool concept (Mashable)
From the archives, unearthed this week:
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North Vancouver is investigating a new purchasing policy that would require new cityfunded buildings to be built primarily of wood (North Shore News)
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Hydrolic cycle: Global forests are overlooked as water suppliers (Science Daily)
Boswellia papyrifera (frankincense) tree photo credit: Flickr's Alexbip
