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Warming Temps Cause Trees to Limit Warminga Little
2013-05-12 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Trees may provide the Earth with a little shade from global warming -- indirectly. European and Canadian researchers report that they have found what engineers like to call a negative feedback loop above the forests of Europe and North America. It works like this. Trees -- those natural chemical factories that routinely deliver complex aromatic compounds such as rubber, coffee, chocolate, resins, pungent fruits, oils and natural drugs such as quinines -- are a permanent source of volatile organic...
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British trees to be placed in seed bank to protect against disease and pests
2013-05-10 08:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The UK National Tree Seed Project will collect seeds from a priority list of 50 of the most vulnerable trees and shrubs, including ash, common box plants and English oak. Scientists leading the 100,000 project will conduct genetic testing on the plants to build up the first detailed picture of the different populations of trees that exist across Britain. Samples from each population will then be placed into protective storage facility at the Royal Botanic Garden's Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst...
Visit Portlands Heritage Trees
2013-05-09 16:17:20| PortlandOnline
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Flooding, trees down, power out after three days of rain
2013-05-06 10:43:27| Energy - Topix.net
Power crews, police and firefighters scrambled overnight on Sunday to respond to a series of emergency calls about flooding, fallen trees and power outages after three days of steady rain.
Planting trees to celebrate diversity
2013-05-02 22:58:45| PortlandOnline
Last week, students from David Douglas High School planted a tree grove to celebrate the 60 different nations represented in their East Portland school!
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