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Identifying Heritage Trees in Parkrose and Parkrose Heights
2016-03-15 20:04:50| PortlandOnline
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Nordic pulp firms see future in turning birch trees into fashion
2016-03-13 10:02:27| Paper - Topix.net
Boiled wood chips and pulp are seen in the research institute Innventia's laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden, February 8, 2016. A wood chip boiler to produce pulp is seen in the research institute Innventia's laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden, February 8, 2016.
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Nordic pulp firms see future in turning birch trees into fashion
2016-03-13 10:02:26| Paper - Topix.net
STOCKHOLM, March 13 Nordic pulp makers are developing clean ways to turn birch and pine trees into clothes or sofa covers to help revive their industry and meet demand from fashion and furniture firms for alternative textiles to cotton. There has been no Nordic production of viscose, the main textile fibre from timber, since the last manufacturer stopped nearly a decade ago, partly on environmental grounds.
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Plant some trees to save a town from flooding? Not a bad idea
2016-03-12 18:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Walk through Keswick, Cockermouth and many other provincial towns and you experience a dislocating feeling that they are out on parole. The apparent solidity of their homes and businesses is transient. The next storm howling in from the Atlantic will send the waters pouring through them again. Floods are no longer freak events but expected inundations. You count yourself lucky in Cumbria if winter passes and you stay dry; as you do in the Thames and Severn valleys, and along the east coast and...
Planting more trees can reduce UK's flood risk, research shows
2016-03-11 11:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Natural defences, including planting more trees, could be a solution to the countrys flooding problems, according to new research. In a study led by the Universities of Birmingham and Southampton, scientists found that planting trees could reduce the height of flooding in towns by up to 20%. They found strategic planting on flood plains could help towns downstream reduce the peak height of floods. But the scientists warned that natural flood defences would need to be combined with conventional...
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