꼬리표: trees
Penelope Lively: ‘Beatrix Potter seemed so exotic, unlike my world of palm trees’
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My earliest reading memoryBeatrix Potter, 물론이야. That wonderful, uncompromising prose: “The dinner was of eight courses; not much of anything, but truly elegant”, “the lettuces had been so soporific”, “the dignity...
Take the cider orchard quiz: could you care for apple trees?
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Taking an apple from young tree to cider is no simple feat. Test your farming instincts to see if you have the knowledge to make it on a Thatchers Cider orchard ...To discover more about life on Myrtle Farm and Thatch...
‘Like witnessing a birth in a morgue’: the volunteers working to save the Joshua trees
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The trees are not exactly imposing. Slim and spiny, with limbs that grip small poms of sharp leaves, they look like something a child might dream up. Or maybe Salvador Dalí. Even the name, Joshua tree, sounds kind of ...
The Tree of Trees jubilee sculpture is yet another mound of ill-judged public art
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The Tree of Trees, an object to be erected outside Buckingham Palace for the Queen’s jubilee, ~이다, according to the studio of its designer, Thomas Heatherwick, a “sculpture” that “seeks to put the importance of trees a...
After Arwen: how to think positive about the UK’s storm-devastated trees
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Storm Arwen came hurtling down from the north at the end of November, causing a tsunami of trees to crash to the ground across Scotland, northern England and parts of Wales. Winds of 100mph flattened conifer plantatio...
‘It was magnificent – I’d look at it in awe’: the beloved trees felled by storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin
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Jenny Bennion has a wooden throne in her garden. It is a monument to the damage caused by Dudley, Eunice and Franklin, a hat-trick of storms that swept across the UK in the space of a week in February. It was the firs...
California couple fined $18,000 for illegally uprooting 36 Joshua trees
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A couple has been fined $18,000 after uprooting 36 Joshua trees to make space for a home and then burying them in a hole. Authorities hope the fine discourages others from mowing down the crooked-limbed plant, which i...
‘I’m seen as the fool’: the farmers putting trees back into the UK’s fields
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Andy Gray stands beside an enormous hill of bare red earth and smiles with a hint of mischief. This is his best field, its soils known as Crediton red land. The region was once known for producing swedes prized by Cov...
Sweden’s green dilemma: can cutting down ancient trees be good for the Earth?
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Forest-owner Lars-Erik Levin doesn’t seem like an environmental villain. As he walks through his 80 hectares (198 acres) of woodland in southern Sweden, he identifies goldcrests by their song, points out a cauliflower...
Trees should be planted without plastic guards, says UK study
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Planting trees without plastic tree guards should be standard practice, a UK study has found, as leading conservation charities and landowners seek sustainable alternatives to reduce plastic waste. The Woodland Trust ...
Every beautiful thing came from the Papahaua mountains, and the trees were its lifeblood
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Although claiming a wild place as your favourite could be a masked attempt to tame it, the land either side of State Highway 67, between Big Ditch and Jones Creek just north of Waimangaroa, is my favourite. This stret...
Airlines need to do more than plant trees to hit net zero, MPs told
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The aviation industry must pay for costly carbon removal technologies rather than rely on using the planting of trees to claim they are reducing emissions, the head of the Climate Change Committee has said. Chris Star...
Ancient sequoia trees threatened by growing wildfire in California’s Sierra Nevada
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A growing wildfire, sparked by lightning and spread through the dense, dry, forested Sierra Nevada, is posing dangers to the ancient sequoia trees in their namesake national park. The Paradise fire and the Colony fire...
Mark Lanegan, Screaming Trees singer, 에 죽는다 57
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Musician Mark Lanegan has died at the age of 57. 가수, songwriter and musician was known as the lead vocalist for Screaming Trees as well as being part of Queens of the Stone Age. “Our beloved friend Mark Laneg...
‘War in the woods’: activists blockade Vancouver Island in bid to save ancient trees
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Hundreds of activists are digging in at logging road blockades across a swath of southern Vancouver Island, vowing to stay as long as it takes to pressure the provincial government to immediately halt cutting of what ...
Scrawny trees, patchy grass, terrible view … why £6m Marble Arch Mound still falls flat
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It has been called a “BTec Eiffel Tower” and a “slag heap”. It’s been compared to “a car-park Santa’s grotto, with dogs pretending to be reindeer”. The Marble Arch Mound, the temporary artificial hill commissioned by ...