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An Extinct Tree Returns to Life

Posted: March 9, 2025

On Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, a tree once popular for construction, firewood, feeding cattle and making sacred artefacts became extinct. Easter Island is a special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. The overused tree also was challenged by changes in environmental conditions. By the 1960s, Easter Island’s vegetation was 90

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Tags: Chile, Easter Island, extinct, Guardian Weekly, Pacific coast, Rapa Nui, rhizobia, soil bacteria, sophora toromiro tree, symbiotic relationship

Does Combining Trees with Farmland Improve Crops?

By Margaret Cheasebro

Posted: August 3, 2021

There is an interesting farming experiment going on in England. It wants to find out how planting trees on farms will benefit the soil and livestock. Andy Gray, who owns Elston Farm in Devon, is part of that experiment, which involves seven farms in southwest England. Devon is located 196 miles south-southwest of London. Gray

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Tags: agroforestry, biodiversity, carbon, cattle, deer, drought, England, experiment, farming, flooding, Guardian Weekly, robots, Rothamsted Research, silvopasture, Soil Association, tractors

Trees Improve Our Health

By Margaret Cheasebro

Posted: November 12, 2020

It’s amazing what trees can do to improve our health. That’s what a study involving 75 children in two Finnish cities found. The study was briefly reported in the Oct. 23, 2020 issue of The Guardian Weekly. In the study, the play areas of children were changed from gravel yards to mini-forests. Within one month,

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Tags: Finland study, Guardian Weekly, immune system, microbes, mini-forest, play area, trees