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Tree bark microbiome has important overlooked role in climate

Tree bark has a total surface area similar to all of the land area on Earth. It is home to a wide range of microbial species unknown to science, and they can either take up or emit gases that have a warming effect on the climate

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Trees have a microbiome inside them? This is both obvious and profound

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Of the Oak by Marshmallow Laser Feast (c) Marshmallow Laser Feast

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New Scientist recommends Kew Gardens' new Of the Oak exhibition

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Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes

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Fig trees may benefit climate by turning carbon dioxide into stone

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Ash trees are rapidly evolving some resistance to ash dieback disease

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Offsetting global fossil fuel stores by planting trees is impossible

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Clare Hewitt: Everything in the forest is the forest Oak leaf lumen prints exposed to the sun on the forest floor

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Dazzling oak leaf prints merge science and nature

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19719.9.22 Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, California 2022 MITCH EPSTEIN. AMERICAN NATURE

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Images capture the timeless beauty of America's ancient forests

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gold mining area in Peru's southeastern Amazon region

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Trees capture toxic fingerprint of gold mining in the Amazon

Mercury pollution accumulating in trees could offer a new way to monitor destructive gold mining operations

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Tree scars reveal how wildfires in centuries past differed from today

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A sliver of lab-grown wood has been made from stem cells

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Google Street View helps map how 600,000 trees grow down to the limb

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The COP16 biodiversity summit was a big flop for protecting nature

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