North Wales’ Ancient Felled Pontfadog Oak Returns In 5 Cloned Saplings
"A 2013 storm toppled the tree that had stood in the Ceiriog valley for 1,200 years – but now it lives on".
Source: Guardian, 07/07/2022
Forests
"Alaska Is on Track for a Record Fire Season"
"Alaska is on pace for a historic fire season, spurred on by warm temperatures, a diminished snowpack, and an apparent uptick in lightning strikes. Fires have ripped through 2 million acres so far this year, roughly 10 times the total area burned in all of 2021."
Source: YaleE360, 07/07/2022
Shredded Trees, Dead Dolphins And Wildfires — How War Hurts Nature
"When the fighter jet crashed into these northwestern Ukrainian woods, killing its 27-year-old pilot, splintering trees and spewing fuel, it tore a gash in the forest canopy. Then it exploded. The wildfire that followed charred trees and earth, threatening two nearby villages."
Source: NPR, 07/05/2022
"Dems Look To Federal Lands For Red-State Abortion Access"
"Democratic lawmakers are pressing President Joe Biden to use federal lands to ensure access to abortion services after the Supreme Court overturned long-standing abortion precedent."
Source: E&E News, 06/28/2022
How 'Rights of Nature' Is Recasting the Relationship Between Law and the Earth
In 2006, a local government council in Pennsylvania concerned about sewage sludge dumping enacted the Western legal system’s first formal “rights of nature” instrument. Today, numerous countries have laws recognizing specific rights or even legal personhood for nature. As legal expert Alice Bleby explains, this new perspective arises from a wide range of contexts and plays out in many different ways.
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"Drought And Bark Beetles Are Killing The Oldest Trees On Earth"
"Forest pathologist Martin MacKenzie strode forward on a narrow path through California’s mythic bristlecone pine forest in the White Mountains near the Nevada border, methodically scanning gnarled limbs for the invaders that threaten the lives of some of the world’s oldest trees."
Source: LA Times, 06/27/2022
"New Colombian President Pledges To Protect Rainforest"
"Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first elected leftist president, will take office in August with ambitious proposals to halt the record-high rates of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Petro has promised to limit agribusiness expansion into the forest, and create reserves where Indigenous communities and others are allowed to harvest rubber, acai and other non-timber forest products."
Source: AP, 06/27/2022
"Forest Service Finds Mining Would Pose Risk To Minnesota Watershed"
"A federal study released Thursday determined that hardrock mining in a Minnesota wilderness area would risk contaminating the region."
Source: The Hill, 06/27/2022
"Brazil's Lula Sets Out 'Net Zero Deforestation' Aim In Election Bid"
"Brazil's former president and front-runner in October elections, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, would seek "net zero deforestation" in the country if elected, a political plan published Tuesday said."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 06/23/2022
"Friendly Fungi Help Forests Fight Climate Change"
"A forest is home to billions of living things, some of them too small to be seen by the naked eye. Collectively, these micro-scale species contribute more to our planet than most of us could imagine."
Source: BBC News, 06/22/2022
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