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Dying Dragon Tree with leaves pruned in an effort to save it81

Is Fluoride killing the Dragon Trees of Tenerife?

Tenerife has a very rare tree that dates back to prehistoric times and has become a plant symbol for the island with the Drago Milenario (thousand-year-old Dragon Tree) that grows in Icod de los Vinos being...

13 comments    environment tree toxins
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What Your Tree Never Told You

If trees could talk they'd have a lot to say. I'm sure they'd want us all to plant more trees, but more than that -- I'm real sure they'd want us to know how to treat those trees who are already here. Like...

6 comments    root tree care heavy equipment
A fossilized tree stump on Axel Heiberg Island61

Paleobotany - How old is an old tree?

In the summer of 1968 I was working for the U.S. Forest Service in southeast Alaska, cruising potential timber sales. During these trips to the various islands, I came across active logging sites with the...

0 comments    trees tree ponderosa pine
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Lionel Abrahams – gentle genius of South African literature

A mentor of poets and a powerful, very human poet himself – that was the great South African poet Lionel Abrahams who died in 2004.

7 comments    arts writing literature
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Dirt Road Critter

I keep on running over this armadillo twice a day, long since dead since the first time I did it. Doing this because I want to make sure it’s dead and I’m a germaphobe.Can’t touch it, but want to...

2 comments    life home travel
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