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United Kingdom: The recent winter storms caused the greatest loss of trees in a generation, says The National Trust
2014-03-07 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The fallout from the extreme winter weather continued yesterday as the National Trust disclosed that the barrage of storms killed the greatest number of trees in a generation as Environment Secretary Owen Paterson announced a further 10.5 million injection into flood protection. Thousands of oak, ash and beech trees, many of them in ancient woodland, were uprooted, blown over, or snapped during the winter, with Killerton Estate in Devon hit the hardest with the loss of more than 500 trees. Wales...
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