From The Guardian:
Deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia has endangered the Borneo elephant, which depends on forest connectivity to survive, by isolating it from large foraging grounds. Now, some plantations are working with WWF-Malaysia to create ecological corridors to enable the animals to travel between forest patches.
From Atlas Obscura:
Joanna Rajkowska, a Jewish-Polish artist, designed and constructed the artificial date palm in 2002. After visiting Jerusalem and seeing the palm trees that dotted the landscape, she decided to use that image to honor an often-forgotten fragment of Warsaw’s cultural heritage. The final result is a tree called Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue.
From the Washington Post:
Instead of giving up, federal prosecutors say the tree poachers attempted to get rid of the bee nest — which proved to be a costly mistake. Their bumbling efforts allegedly sparked a forest fire that burned out of control for several days last fall, scorching 3,300 acres of federal and state land, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney’s office in the Western District of Washington. Known as the Maple Fire, the blaze cost $4.5 million to extinguish, the release said.
From the BBC:
Producer Julian May and Bob Gilbert, author of ‘Ghost Trees’ (about the trees of East London, the poplars of Poplar and beyond), are fascinated by the rustles of leaves in the breeze. They capture the distinctive susurrations of several species: quivering poplars, aspens that sound like rain, rattling London planes, whispering elms (there are still elms, they spring up, but the beetles bringing Dutch elm disease get them before they can mature) the hiss of the ash, whooshing pines and the strangely silent yew. They test Hardy’s contention with Matthew Steinman and Ian Rogers, arboriculturalists who care for the trees of the Royal Parks.
From Knowable Magazine:
If one is pressed to describe what makes a tree a tree, long life is right up there with wood and height. While many plants have a predictably limited life span (what scientists call “programmed senescence”), trees don’t, and many persist for centuries. In fact, that trait — indefinite growth — could be science’s tidiest demarcation of treeness, even more than woodiness. Yet it’s only helpful to a point. We think we know what trees are, but they slip through the fingers when we try to define them.
From Works That Work:
Deep in the forests of inland Sweden, Johan Linell pulls over, his engine dead. He and two friends leave the vehicle and fan out through the trees, returning with arms full of fir cones and dead wood. At the back of the car Linell unhinges the top of a tall steel box that towers from a hole in the boot. Smoke billows, and flames follow as he dumps the foraged wood inside. From the bottom of the tar-stained stack, thick, welded pipes clamber over the car’s body and snake to the front bumper, where they enter the engine like a patient’s feeding tubes. Within minutes, the car comes to life, smoothly running on solid wood.
From Wikipedia:
A Tree of 40 Fruit is one of a series of fruit trees created by the New York-based artist Sam Van Aken using the technique of grafting. Each tree produces forty types of stone fruit, of the genus Prunus, ripening sequentially from July to October in the United States.
From Vimeo:
record player that plays slices of wood.
Modified record player, wood, sleeves. 2011