A SELECTION OF GLOBAL TREE STORIES MAKING THE NEWS
In the news
November 2022
UNESCO - Heritage Forests and Trees - Carbon sinks under pressure
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379527.locale=en
National Gallery of Victoria launches 'Broken Spectre' film examing the loss of Amazon forests
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/01/you-cant-unsee-this-richard-mosses-all-consuming-plea-to-save-the-amazon
October 2022
Indigenous forest management in British Columbia - example of private and public partnership development
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-kanaka-bar-old-growth-forest/
June 2022
World's oldest trees
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/whats-the-oldest-tree-on-earth-and-will-it-survive-climate-change
May 2022
Trees and Monarch celebrations - UK
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61286592 & Living Tree sculpture https://www.bbc.com › uk-england-london-61187850
April 2022
Forests and trees for better living
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/21/the-big-idea-can-forests-teach-us-to-live-better-trees-model-suzanne-simard
Community Forest Conservation - Papua New Guinea
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/podcast-community-empowerment-and-forest-conservation-grow-from-the-galip-nut-in-papua-new-guinea/
Launch of NAA'WAYA'SUM Coastal Indigenous Gardens, Canada
https://www.clayoquotcampus.ca
Ancient trees - UK
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/30/from-ancient-oaks-to-walking-yews-the-story-of-britains-great-trees-forests-and-avenues-aoe
March 2022
Trees migrating across landscapes adapting to climate change
https://www.ft.com/content/7d7621cd-7bb5-4f97-94f1-6985ce038e13
February 2022
Expedited loss of trees in Romania due to harvesting and processing needs of global furniture maker
https://newrepublic.com/article/165245/ikea-romania-europe-old-growth-forest
Tree diversity to increase carbon sequestration and nature services
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2307116-fix-the-planet-newsletter-can-tree-diversity-help-the-climate/
Webinar discussion examining the role ecological and cultural tourism can play in building resilient economies, supporting Indigenous self-determination, fostering reconciliation, and sustaining biodiversity
https://www.waysofknowingforum.ca/dialogue14
January 2022
Ancient trees are vital to forest health
https://phys.org/news/2022-01-ancient-trees-deemed-vital-forest.html
China supports tree growing locally - abroad policies differ
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/01/30/as-china-replants-its-own-forests-it-is-destroying-the-worlds/
Ghost Forests
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/ghost-forests-are-sprouting-up-along-the-atlantic-coast
More tree species to be discovered
https://phys.org/news/2022-01-earth-tree-species-higher.html
December 2021
Fall tree foilage disrupted by climate change
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/fall-foliage-disrupted-by-climate-change-might-be-new-normal
Wales - a tree for every citizen
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/12/07/every-household-in-wales-to-plant-a-tree-as-green-areas-have-a-lower-crime-rate
Microfungal forests - the other carbon sink
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/12/02/scientists-are-mapping-the-world-s-fungal-networks-for-the-first-time-here-s-how
UN International Mountain Day
https://www.fao.org/international-mountain-day/key-messages/en/
November 2021
Cloning world's oldest trees to fight climate change
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/11/14/this-ngo-is-cloning-the-world-s-oldest-trees-to-tackle-climate-change
October 2021
Trees, droughts and water cisterns
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/10/ancient-water-management-techniques-prairie-farmers-drought-climate-change-solution
September 2021
African rainforests are stronger carbon sinks than Amazon
https:///www.popsci.com/environment/african-rainforest-carbon-sink/
Health matters: Daycares in Finland Built Their Own 'Forests' to improve children's health and wellbeing
https://www.sciencealert.com/daycares-in-finland-built-their-own-forests-and-it-changed-kids-immune-systems
Rainforests are adapted to hurricanes but maybe not climate change
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/rainforests-are-adapted-to-hurricanes-but-climate-change-may-be-pushing-some-to-a-breaking-point
State of the World’s Trees Report, Botanic Gardens Conservation Group
www.bgci.org/our-work/projects-and-case-studies/global-tree-assessment/
August 2021
Reconciling ways of Knowing: Stewarding our relations in Forests and Watersheds
https://www.waysofknowingforum.ca/dialogue-11
Nearly 30% of world's tree species in the wild are threatened
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/01/nearly-30percent-of-tree-species-in-wild-threatened-with-extinction-report.html
Scotland to boost land protection to 30% in order to boost biodiversity
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/12/scotland-boosts-biodiversity-protection
Yes, We Can Grow 1 Trillion Trees to Help Fight Climate Change
https://time.com/6093342/1-trillion-trees-climate-change/
Places for forest bathing, Parks Canada
www.pc.gc.ca/en/nature/science/conservation/foret-forest
Trees, carbon sequestration and future climate mitigation
https://theconversation.com/how-would-planting-8-billion-trees-every-year-for-20-years-affect-earths-climate-165284
Sydney orders white roofs and trees to cool climate
https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/manawatu-standard/20210825/281741272506878
Alternative food and fuel sources
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/06/ancient-grain-amaranth-food-trend-indigenous
Mini forests add biodiversity
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/fast-growing-mini-forests-spring-up-in-europe-to-aid-climate
Creating beauty from bare fields
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19483755.couples-wild-idea-creates-blooming-beauty-bare-fields/
Among Finland’s cold lakes and majestic pines, I learned to be present, Guardian opinion piece
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/07/among-finlands-cold-lakes-and-majestic-pines-i-learned-to-be-present-to-beauty
Tree alphabet
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40357907.html
July 2021
More trees, more rainfall
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/07/06/more-trees-more-rainfall-why-increased-tree-planting-could-save-europe-from-climate-change
Underwater forests and benefits
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/04/28/enormous-underwater-meadows-planted-in-the-uk-to-fight-climate-change
Need for pollinators
The insect apocalypse: ‘Our world will grind to a halt without them’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/25/the-insect-apocalypse-our-world-will-grind-to-a-halt-without-them
3 million trees and roof-top gardens: European cities make green pledge to improve civic eco-systems
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/07/13/3-million-trees-and-roof-top-gardens-european-cities-in-green-pledge
Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild – here’s what happened
theconversation.com/monks-wood-wilderness-60-years-ago-scientists-let-a-farm-field-rewild-heres-what-happened-163406
A news article from 2019 offering another perspective of how Ethiopian Orthodox communities are attempting to preserve tree forests and why
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-49528694
La Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and the Power Station (Shanghai) co-present Trees Exhibition (07 -10.2021 Shanghai)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mmit_DfpjU&t=48s. (visual trailer of the installed show)
June 2021
In the UK, the Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) is a tree planting initiative which invites people from across the United Kingdom to “Plant a Tree” to help the environment. For participation options see https://queensgreencanopy.org
May 2021
Climate change: Area of forests the size of France has regrown worldwide since 2000
https://news.sky.com/story/climate-change-area-of-forests-the-size-of-france-has-regrown-worldwide-since-2000-12303115
Enormous tree-planting push will turn farmland into forests to hit net-zero goals
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/tree-planting-forests-woodlands-farming-b1845086.html
In Maya Lin’s New Installation, a Forest Grows in Manhattan
https://www.vogue.com/article/maya-lin-ghost-forrest
March 2021
Is this the end of forests as we've known them?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/10/is-this-the-end-of-forests-as-weve-known-them
OLDER ONLINE REFERENCE ARTICLES
Harsh, Hidden Lessons of Tree School: Tree education is full of tearing and screaming.
https://nautil.us/issue/40/Learning/the-harsh-hidden-lessons-of-tree-school
Arborglyphs
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/witches-marks-and-other-tree-etchings-offer-window-english-past-180976003/
Guidelines to how to report a monumental tree of cultural and historical significance (Italy)
https://www.politicheagricole.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/12186
Italian national inventory of monumental trees
List of monumental trees in Italy pursuant to Law no. 10/2013 and the Decree of 23 October 2014
https://www.politicheagricole.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/11260
Poetry of Trees
http://poetry.nautil.us/article/493/on-learning-the-trees
Six pictures of Paradise: Thomas Struth
https://nautil.us/issue/101/in-our-nature/six-pictures-of-paradise-rp
November 2022
UNESCO - Heritage Forests and Trees - Carbon sinks under pressure
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379527.locale=en
National Gallery of Victoria launches 'Broken Spectre' film examing the loss of Amazon forests
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/01/you-cant-unsee-this-richard-mosses-all-consuming-plea-to-save-the-amazon
October 2022
Indigenous forest management in British Columbia - example of private and public partnership development
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-kanaka-bar-old-growth-forest/
June 2022
World's oldest trees
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/whats-the-oldest-tree-on-earth-and-will-it-survive-climate-change
May 2022
Trees and Monarch celebrations - UK
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61286592 & Living Tree sculpture https://www.bbc.com › uk-england-london-61187850
April 2022
Forests and trees for better living
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/21/the-big-idea-can-forests-teach-us-to-live-better-trees-model-suzanne-simard
Community Forest Conservation - Papua New Guinea
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/podcast-community-empowerment-and-forest-conservation-grow-from-the-galip-nut-in-papua-new-guinea/
Launch of NAA'WAYA'SUM Coastal Indigenous Gardens, Canada
https://www.clayoquotcampus.ca
Ancient trees - UK
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/30/from-ancient-oaks-to-walking-yews-the-story-of-britains-great-trees-forests-and-avenues-aoe
March 2022
Trees migrating across landscapes adapting to climate change
https://www.ft.com/content/7d7621cd-7bb5-4f97-94f1-6985ce038e13
February 2022
Expedited loss of trees in Romania due to harvesting and processing needs of global furniture maker
https://newrepublic.com/article/165245/ikea-romania-europe-old-growth-forest
Tree diversity to increase carbon sequestration and nature services
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2307116-fix-the-planet-newsletter-can-tree-diversity-help-the-climate/
Webinar discussion examining the role ecological and cultural tourism can play in building resilient economies, supporting Indigenous self-determination, fostering reconciliation, and sustaining biodiversity
https://www.waysofknowingforum.ca/dialogue14
January 2022
Ancient trees are vital to forest health
https://phys.org/news/2022-01-ancient-trees-deemed-vital-forest.html
China supports tree growing locally - abroad policies differ
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/01/30/as-china-replants-its-own-forests-it-is-destroying-the-worlds/
Ghost Forests
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/ghost-forests-are-sprouting-up-along-the-atlantic-coast
More tree species to be discovered
https://phys.org/news/2022-01-earth-tree-species-higher.html
December 2021
Fall tree foilage disrupted by climate change
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/fall-foliage-disrupted-by-climate-change-might-be-new-normal
Wales - a tree for every citizen
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/12/07/every-household-in-wales-to-plant-a-tree-as-green-areas-have-a-lower-crime-rate
Microfungal forests - the other carbon sink
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/12/02/scientists-are-mapping-the-world-s-fungal-networks-for-the-first-time-here-s-how
UN International Mountain Day
https://www.fao.org/international-mountain-day/key-messages/en/
November 2021
Cloning world's oldest trees to fight climate change
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/11/14/this-ngo-is-cloning-the-world-s-oldest-trees-to-tackle-climate-change
October 2021
Trees, droughts and water cisterns
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/10/ancient-water-management-techniques-prairie-farmers-drought-climate-change-solution
September 2021
African rainforests are stronger carbon sinks than Amazon
https:///www.popsci.com/environment/african-rainforest-carbon-sink/
Health matters: Daycares in Finland Built Their Own 'Forests' to improve children's health and wellbeing
https://www.sciencealert.com/daycares-in-finland-built-their-own-forests-and-it-changed-kids-immune-systems
Rainforests are adapted to hurricanes but maybe not climate change
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/rainforests-are-adapted-to-hurricanes-but-climate-change-may-be-pushing-some-to-a-breaking-point
State of the World’s Trees Report, Botanic Gardens Conservation Group
www.bgci.org/our-work/projects-and-case-studies/global-tree-assessment/
August 2021
Reconciling ways of Knowing: Stewarding our relations in Forests and Watersheds
https://www.waysofknowingforum.ca/dialogue-11
Nearly 30% of world's tree species in the wild are threatened
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/01/nearly-30percent-of-tree-species-in-wild-threatened-with-extinction-report.html
Scotland to boost land protection to 30% in order to boost biodiversity
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/12/scotland-boosts-biodiversity-protection
Yes, We Can Grow 1 Trillion Trees to Help Fight Climate Change
https://time.com/6093342/1-trillion-trees-climate-change/
Places for forest bathing, Parks Canada
www.pc.gc.ca/en/nature/science/conservation/foret-forest
Trees, carbon sequestration and future climate mitigation
https://theconversation.com/how-would-planting-8-billion-trees-every-year-for-20-years-affect-earths-climate-165284
Sydney orders white roofs and trees to cool climate
https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/manawatu-standard/20210825/281741272506878
Alternative food and fuel sources
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/06/ancient-grain-amaranth-food-trend-indigenous
Mini forests add biodiversity
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/fast-growing-mini-forests-spring-up-in-europe-to-aid-climate
Creating beauty from bare fields
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19483755.couples-wild-idea-creates-blooming-beauty-bare-fields/
Among Finland’s cold lakes and majestic pines, I learned to be present, Guardian opinion piece
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/07/among-finlands-cold-lakes-and-majestic-pines-i-learned-to-be-present-to-beauty
Tree alphabet
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40357907.html
July 2021
More trees, more rainfall
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/07/06/more-trees-more-rainfall-why-increased-tree-planting-could-save-europe-from-climate-change
Underwater forests and benefits
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/04/28/enormous-underwater-meadows-planted-in-the-uk-to-fight-climate-change
Need for pollinators
The insect apocalypse: ‘Our world will grind to a halt without them’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/25/the-insect-apocalypse-our-world-will-grind-to-a-halt-without-them
3 million trees and roof-top gardens: European cities make green pledge to improve civic eco-systems
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/07/13/3-million-trees-and-roof-top-gardens-european-cities-in-green-pledge
Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild – here’s what happened
theconversation.com/monks-wood-wilderness-60-years-ago-scientists-let-a-farm-field-rewild-heres-what-happened-163406
A news article from 2019 offering another perspective of how Ethiopian Orthodox communities are attempting to preserve tree forests and why
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-49528694
La Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and the Power Station (Shanghai) co-present Trees Exhibition (07 -10.2021 Shanghai)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mmit_DfpjU&t=48s. (visual trailer of the installed show)
June 2021
In the UK, the Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) is a tree planting initiative which invites people from across the United Kingdom to “Plant a Tree” to help the environment. For participation options see https://queensgreencanopy.org
May 2021
Climate change: Area of forests the size of France has regrown worldwide since 2000
https://news.sky.com/story/climate-change-area-of-forests-the-size-of-france-has-regrown-worldwide-since-2000-12303115
Enormous tree-planting push will turn farmland into forests to hit net-zero goals
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/tree-planting-forests-woodlands-farming-b1845086.html
In Maya Lin’s New Installation, a Forest Grows in Manhattan
https://www.vogue.com/article/maya-lin-ghost-forrest
March 2021
Is this the end of forests as we've known them?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/10/is-this-the-end-of-forests-as-weve-known-them
OLDER ONLINE REFERENCE ARTICLES
Harsh, Hidden Lessons of Tree School: Tree education is full of tearing and screaming.
https://nautil.us/issue/40/Learning/the-harsh-hidden-lessons-of-tree-school
Arborglyphs
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/witches-marks-and-other-tree-etchings-offer-window-english-past-180976003/
Guidelines to how to report a monumental tree of cultural and historical significance (Italy)
https://www.politicheagricole.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/12186
Italian national inventory of monumental trees
List of monumental trees in Italy pursuant to Law no. 10/2013 and the Decree of 23 October 2014
https://www.politicheagricole.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/11260
Poetry of Trees
http://poetry.nautil.us/article/493/on-learning-the-trees
Six pictures of Paradise: Thomas Struth
https://nautil.us/issue/101/in-our-nature/six-pictures-of-paradise-rp
