News in Brief: saving trees, the science of flowers, and Lego towers
A lighthearted round-up of this week’s Cambridge news, featuring green-thumbed engineers and yet another creative use for AI ...
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Gardener sparks debate after sharing problematic photo of tree: 'How would you stake a tree this size?'
"I wouldn't." Gardener sparks debate after sharing problematic photo of tree: 'How would you stake a tree this size?' first ...
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Tree that can grow 40 types of fruit — from cherries to peaches — takes root at Temple's art school
Artist Sam Van Aken fuses heirloom trees through a horticultural process known as grafting. He then plants them around the ...
Flora Plants Virtual (and Real) Trees While You Focus on Other Tasks
Flora is an app for staying focused and productive while also still being relaxed. It also allows you to help the earth by ...
The Highlands Current3d
Roots and Shoots: Future Forests
As the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree was yesterday. Tree time and people time are different and in the decades ...
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New York Launches an Interactive Tree Tracker
New Yorkers across the state are being asked to contribute by planting trees, according to a press release from NY governor ...
$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that’s over
Arthur Johnson has lived in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward for nearly three decades, long enough to appreciate the trees that ...
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Forests for Life: A call to plant 3 million trees for a greener future
3M Trees by 2028 initiative, aiming to plant three million trees by 2028. It seeks to restore critical forest ecosystems, enhance biodiversity, improve water resources, and mitigate soil erosion. DENR ...
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‘Simpsons’ producer’s epic tree house may get the ax after ‘absurd’ fight with city
News of the tree house’s imminent demolition has been ... that it would cost him thousands of dollars to have an architect draw up designs for a structure he had already built.
The Conversation20d
Kenya’s goal to plant 15 billion trees should include farmers – study shows they are keen
But with most farms being less than an acre in size, every tree competes with space for food crops. One farmer told us that she would love to plant more trees for firewood and fruit, but worried ...
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Fruit trees need attention this time of year. Here’s a guide to planting, pruning and spraying
More and more homeowners are adding fruit trees to their landscape and now’s the time to buy, plant, prune and spray. Whether you have one or several, or plan to plant your first fruit tree ...
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Portland would plant 660,000 trees, reduce cost of tree care for residents under new plan
Portland wants to plant 660,000 trees over the next 40 years and launch a citywide and city-managed street tree maintenance program that will take the financial burden off residents. A draft of ...