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The Wollemi pine, (Wollemia nobilis), dating from the Jurassic period 200 million years ago and often described as a living fossil, was thought to be extinct until 1994 when a park ranger stumbled upon a stand of fewer than 100 trees in a remote gorge in Wollemi National Park, 200 kilometres w...

Geologists in Gujarat are thrilled after a massive fossilised tree of Jurassic age was recently discovered at Dholavira -- an ancient metropolitan city of the Harrapan civilisation which is now an archaeological site in the Rann of Kutch. "It is an amazing find. The fossil-tree is at least...

Researchers have found that a redwood named Hyperion in a remote Northern California forest is the world's tallest tree. Steve Sillett, a forestry professor at Humboldt State University, recently climbed Hyperion and measured it at 379.1 feet, one foot taller than previously thought. Hy...

The Fortingall yew is claimed to be oldest living thing in Europe. Botanists estimate the tree to be about 5,000 years old. Located in a church yard in Perthshire near Glen Lyon, the yew tree is enclosed by a stone wall built in 1785 to keep tourists from taking home any more clippings as souvenirs. The y...

Action Alert: Stop WWF's Betrayal of the Earth's Last Ancient Forests WWF is the world's largest ancient forest logging apologist; actively promoting questionable "certified, sustainable" logging in Guyana, Russia and elsewhere -- and may be the World's greatest threat facing end...

An ancient and legally protected oak tree was felled for a profit-making new housing venture, a court heard yesterday. Simon Pooley, 40, and Deborah Pooley, 39, both of Cardinal Close, Bury St Edmunds, and Anthony Leek, 44, deny illegally removing the gnarled oak from the plot in Maltings Lane, Ing...

Scientists in Finland have discovered a 780-year-old sylvester pine tree, the oldest living specimen known in Scandinavia, a research institute said on Tuesday. The ancient "pinus sylvestris", a contemporary of eighth-century emperor Charlemagne, was found last year in Lapland d...

A tree that has been called a "living fossil" is helping researchers understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to future global warming. Symphonia globulifera is a tropical tree with a history going back 45 million years in Africa, said Chri...

First Neotropical Rainforest Was Home Of The Titanoboa Smithsonian researchers working in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world's biggest snake, lived in this forest 58 million years ago at temperatures 3...

One of New Zealand's North Shore City’s most significant geological features - a 200,000-year-old fossil forest - will get some TLC next week as part of the council’s project to protect Takapuna’s rocky foreshore. Over time wave action has eroded the base of the foreshore creating a cavity and...

New high resolution images of logging roads in the Congo region of Africa are helping researchers understand the expansion of industrial logging in Central Africa. Using highly detailed images from NASA and commercial satellite firms, scientists from the Woods Hole Research Centre (WHRC) crea...

A large cedar tree of historical significance has split in two in Co Meath, in circumstances that have revived local interest in "sacred" trees - and the omens attached to them. The 270-year-old cedar, located on the lands of the Spiritans - otherwise known as the Holy Ghost Fathers - in Ar...

Hunt for missing 'Moon Trees' that grew from seeds taken into space on Apollo 14 They are living, breathing monuments to the early days of space exploration - but nobody knows where they all are. A former Nasa astronomer has spent the last 15 years trying to track down dozens of 'Moon Trees' which were g...

A sacred tree which came back to life after it was nearly destroyed by vandals must now be replaced - thanks to trophy hunters who have broken off its new shoots. The Holy Thorn Tree in Glastonbury Somerset had its branches hacked off in December last year. [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...

One Of World's Oldest Cypress Trees, 'The Senator,' Burns In Florida Investigators are now saying arson was not the likely cause of a fire that on Monday destroyed a cypress tree in Central Florida that was an estimated 3,500 years old - making it perhaps the oldest such tree in the nat...

Prometheus (aka WPN-114) was the nickname given to the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, USA. The tree, which was at least 4862 years old and likely approaching or over 5000 years, was...

Pontfadog Oak: 1,200-year-old tree toppled by winds A 1,200-year-old tree, reputed to be the oldest and one of the largest in the UK, has been toppled by strong winds. It is understood the Pontfadog Oak, which has been growing near Chirk in Wrexham since the year 802, fell over during the gusts overni...

Researchers confirm that surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were warmer over the last 10 years than any time during the last 1300 years, and, if the climate scientists include the somewhat controversial data derived from tree-ring records, the warming is anomalous for at least 1700...

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Tree Wollemi pine (Preview)	General news	9	8751	Aug 24 12:46 2010 by Blobrana
The Wollemi pine, (Wollemia nobilis), dating from the Jurassic period 200 million years ago and often described as a living fossil, was thought to be extinct until 1994 when a park ranger stumbled upon a stand of fewer than 100 trees in a remote gorge in Wollemi National Park, 200 kilometres w...
Tree Plants Fossilised tree ( 1 2 3 4 ) (Preview)	Off Topic	32	58733	Feb 29 19:15 2012 by Blobrana
Geologists in Gujarat are thrilled after a massive fossilised tree of Jurassic age was recently discovered at Dholavira -- an ancient metropolitan city of the Harrapan civilisation which is now an archaeological site in the Rann of Kutch. "It is an amazing find. The fossil-tree is at least...
Tree Tallest tree (Preview)	Off Topic	7	8608	Jun 6 13:22 2017 by Blobrana
Researchers have found that a redwood named Hyperion in a remote Northern California forest is the world's tallest tree. Steve Sillett, a forestry professor at Humboldt State University, recently climbed Hyperion and measured it at 379.1 feet, one foot taller than previously thought. Hy...
Tree The Fortingall yew (Preview)	General news	4	3719	Jul 14 21:12 2008 by Blobrana
The Fortingall yew is claimed to be oldest living thing in Europe. Botanists estimate the tree to be about 5,000 years old. Located in a church yard in Perthshire near Glen Lyon, the yew tree is enclosed by a stone wall built in 1785 to keep tourists from taking home any more clippings as souvenirs. The y...
Tree Ancient Forests (Preview)	Off Topic	6	8140	Mar 3 03:21 2012 by Blobrana
Action Alert: Stop WWF's Betrayal of the Earth's Last Ancient Forests WWF is the world's largest ancient forest logging apologist; actively promoting questionable "certified, sustainable" logging in Guyana, Russia and elsewhere -- and may be the World's greatest threat facing end...
Tree Tree ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 6 ) (Preview)	Trash	53	95488	Jun 12 16:50 2017 by Blobrana
An ancient and legally protected oak tree was felled for a profit-making new housing venture, a court heard yesterday. Simon Pooley, 40, and Deborah Pooley, 39, both of Cardinal Close, Bury St Edmunds, and Anthony Leek, 44, deny illegally removing the gnarled oak from the plot in Maltings Lane, Ing...
Tree Oldest sylvester pine tree (Preview)	Off Topic	2	10944	Apr 12 20:44 2008 by Blobrana
Scientists in Finland have discovered a 780-year-old sylvester pine tree, the oldest living specimen known in Scandinavia, a research institute said on Tuesday. The ancient "pinus sylvestris", a contemporary of eighth-century emperor Charlemagne, was found last year in Lapland d...
Tree Symphonia globulifera (Preview)	General news	0	2976	Oct 31 11:14 2008 by Blobrana
A tree that has been called a "living fossil" is helping researchers understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to future global warming. Symphonia globulifera is a tropical tree with a history going back 45 million years in Africa, said Chri...
tree Neotropical Rainforest (Preview)	Off Topic	5	4360	Apr 3 02:30 2012 by Blobrana
First Neotropical Rainforest Was Home Of The Titanoboa Smithsonian researchers working in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world's biggest snake, lived in this forest 58 million years ago at temperatures 3...
Tree New Zealand's Fossil Forest (Preview)	Off Topic	0	4118	May 31 19:31 2006 by Blobrana
One of New Zealand's North Shore City’s most significant geological features - a 200,000-year-old fossil forest - will get some TLC next week as part of the council’s project to protect Takapuna’s rocky foreshore. Over time wave action has eroded the base of the foreshore creating a cavity and...
Tree Rainforest (Preview)	Off Topic	4	14487	Dec 16 17:31 2016 by Blobrana
New high resolution images of logging roads in the Congo region of Africa are helping researchers understand the expansion of industrial logging in Central Africa. Using highly detailed images from NASA and commercial satellite firms, scientists from the Woods Hole Research Centre (WHRC) crea...
Tree Ardbraccan cedar tree (Preview)	Meteors	0	3758	Dec 4 11:02 2010 by Blobrana
A large cedar tree of historical significance has split in two in Co Meath, in circumstances that have revived local interest in "sacred" trees - and the omens attached to them. The 270-year-old cedar, located on the lands of the Spiritans - otherwise known as the Holy Ghost Fathers - in Ar...
Tree Moon Trees (Preview)	General news	1	3262	Sep 23 19:53 2011 by Blobrana
Hunt for missing 'Moon Trees' that grew from seeds taken into space on Apollo 14 They are living, breathing monuments to the early days of space exploration - but nobody knows where they all are. A former Nasa astronomer has spent the last 15 years trying to track down dozens of 'Moon Trees' which were g...
Tree Holy Thorn Tree (Preview)	Trash	0	2739	Sep 19 00:17 2011 by Blobrana
A sacred tree which came back to life after it was nearly destroyed by vandals must now be replaced - thanks to trophy hunters who have broken off its new shoots. The Holy Thorn Tree in Glastonbury Somerset had its branches hacked off in December last year. [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...
Tree The Senator (Preview)	Trash	0	2768	Feb 3 04:51 2012 by Blobrana
One Of World's Oldest Cypress Trees, 'The Senator,' Burns In Florida Investigators are now saying arson was not the likely cause of a fire that on Monday destroyed a cypress tree in Central Florida that was an estimated 3,500 years old - making it perhaps the oldest such tree in the nat...
Tree Prometheus (aka WPN-114) (Preview)	Trash	0	2789	Aug 6 04:53 2012 by Blobrana
Prometheus (aka WPN-114) was the nickname given to the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, USA. The tree, which was at least 4862 years old and likely approaching or over 5000 years, was...
Tree Pontfadog Oak (Preview)	Trash	0	2914	Apr 18 19:41 2013 by Blobrana
Pontfadog Oak: 1,200-year-old tree toppled by winds A 1,200-year-old tree, reputed to be the oldest and one of the largest in the UK, has been toppled by strong winds. It is understood the Pontfadog Oak, which has been growing near Chirk in Wrexham since the year 802, fell over during the gusts overni...
Tree Dendrochronology (Preview)	General news	7	7829	Sep 29 05:51 2013 by Blobrana
Researchers confirm that surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were warmer over the last 10 years than any time during the last 1300 years, and, if the climate scientists include the somewhat controversial data derived from tree-ring records, the warming is anomalous for at least 1700...