by Susan Keown | Oct 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
For New York Journal of Books, Adrienne Ross Scanlan reviews “Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet,” a nonfiction book by John W. Reid and Thomas E. Lovejoy about the megaforests that are crucial to both a healthy planetary climate and human cultures. She...
by Susan Keown | May 2, 2022 | ScienceWire
The notorious Dutch elm disease has ravaged elm trees across the world for more than a century, but some have nevertheless managed to survive. Carolyn Bernhardt (@CarolBernie11) writes for the Minnesota Invasive Terrestrial Plants and Pests Center’s website about the...
by Susan Keown | May 2, 2022 | ScienceWire
For the New York Journal of Books, Adrienne Ross Scanlan recently reviewed “The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth.” This nonfiction book is, she writes, “a tight weave of science writing and travel writing” that takes readers on an informative,...
by Susan Keown | Feb 3, 2022 | ScienceWire
New member Ian Rose (@ianrosewrites) writes for Earth Island Journal about an alarming decline of the iconic bigleaf maple in Washington state. All over the state, people had been reporting trees losing leaves or simply just dying, and the reason for the devastation...
by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2017 | ScienceWire
Trees remove carbon-containing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, writes Andrea Watts. But scientists want to know exactly how much carbon we’re talking about. Andrea provides the impressive numbers for Washington and Oregon forests in a report for Science...
