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Trees Provide Rocket Fuel And Clean Water

2014-03-27 17:32:00| Chemical Processing

Science is getting back to nature. Two separate press releases that crossed my desk made me want to go hug a tree. The first one touts new water filtration technologies via tree branches. The other notes that researchers have engineered a bacterium to synthesize pinene, a hydrocarbon produced by trees that could potentially replace high-energy fuels.

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Heritage Trees by Year

2014-03-19 15:27:07| PortlandOnline

A List of Heritage Trees by the year of their designation

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Leftover trees enhance the biodiversity of new forests

2014-03-18 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Trees left standing after deforestation have a discernible impact on the composition of local biodiversity in secondary growth forests, according to a new study published in PLOS ONE. Researchers working on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica discovered that remnant trees could affect species composition of regenerated forests up to 20 years after being logged. When land that was once forest is abandoned after being cleared for timber or agricultural purposes, what emerges is known as a second-growth...

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Helicopter, Air Saw Trims Trees in Eastern Wisconsin

2014-03-14 16:44:00| Transmission & Distribution World

A helicopter and heavy-duty air saw will be used by American Transmission Co. (ATC), to trim trees along transmission lines in eastern Wisconsin in Maarch. read more

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