It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees
December 7, 2012 at 2:30 pm by Amanda Cooke
It's all about the pine in this week's tree news from around the world:
- The healing power of pine [Health.com]
- Work has begun to extract and preserve the stump of Japan's "miracle tree", the only one of about 70,000 pine trees left standing after the tsunami [The Japan Times]
- A typical Christmas tree takes from 8 to 12 years to go from seed cone to Christmas tree stand [The New York Times]
- The "Abies Electronicus" is an 82-foot steel-ribbed installation that replaces the real pine tree typically on display in Brussels' central square [The Verge]
- The Australian War Memorial's lone Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis), planted in 1934, has been given a band-aid [The Canberra Times]
- Mountain pine beetles are turning up the heat on climate change [Switchboard]
- Read about a tree that has 2 billion leaves [National Geographic]
- This sculptor, who is "smitten with wood" as his material, spends long hours using hand tools to create complex dents and curves that turn a functional object into a piece of garbage [Los Angeles Times]
- Birds are lining their nests with cigarette butts; The nicotine in discarded filters act as a natural pesticide that repels mites! [BBC News]
- A single acre of woodlot counters the emissions of about 2.7 cars [The New York Times]
- This biologist spent an entire year observing the same section of Tennessee forest. Listen in on his observations [The Diane Rehm Show]
- A New Guinea singing dog photographed in the wild for the first time. The canines are known for an ability to climb trees [Mongabay.com]
- Thanks to forest management, the blueberry business in Kake, Alaska is just beginning to grow [USDA Blog]
- China has become the number one importer of illegal wood products from around the world, according to one report [mongabay.com]
- Beer cans + wood = solar home heater [Planet Forward]
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