Depending on the species, touching a stinging tree can be like 30 wasp stings at once or being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time.
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Grass trees are wonderfully odd. They fit no neat definition, and can live up to 600 years.
How a species of screw pine unique to Lord Howe Island has evolved its own rainwater harvesting system that allows it to grow tall.
Urban trees are literally made with the help of human breath – they turn the carbon dioxide we breathe out into the building blocks of plant growth. So your local trees have a piece of you inside them.
July is the hottest month in much of North America. Experts explain who is most affected by heat waves and ways to cope with them.
The ecological value of old trees is irreplaceable for native Australian fauna. Identifying and preserving these trees in cities through smarter planning strategies is important for local wildlife.
It’s important to be wary of planting trees in places where none exist, or where there are significant water constraints.
It’s hard to measure the value of a tree, but scientists equipped with lasers have come one step closer.
Wollemi pines have survived for hundreds of millions of years. Once covering Australia, they now survive in a few isolated spots – but they’re coming back in a big way.
Despite them living for up to 2,500 years, researchers have discovered several baobab trees in Africa have died. Aida Cuni Sanchez on why these trees have a special place in our world.
The Bunya pine is a unique and majestic Australian tree that commands respect.
Deriving fuel from trees costs more than wind and solar power and it emits more carbon than coal. There are many heated debates about this kind of energy, known as forest or woody biomass.
In an increasingly urban world, trees can make a major difference. One study found that, for every dollar invested in planting, megacities saw a $2.50 return on their investment.
Trees evolved many times around the world.
Europe loses as many trees to storms each year as Poland produces in timber. Until now, the models for predicting which trees are at risk have not been good enough.
On April 5, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps, a massive relief program that paid young men to plant trees and build parks across the nation. It was money well spent.
Tree bonds are set to be introduced by a Melbourne city council to protect city trees. But how do they work and why are they needed?
The history of the rubber ‘boom’ reveals why.
It’s as if Socrates’ remark that ‘the trees teach me nothing’ is very much still the attitude today.
Cladoxylopsid trees were hugely complex and very different to those we have now.
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Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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