WORLD TREE NEWS

The Youth Climate Coalition was founded to challenge the roots of social and climate injustice, for a future where we enjoy and protect a healthy planet.

Four beaver families have been transferred from Norway to Argyll. The scientific trial respects the beaver as an important key species in landscape ecology.

New discoveries show that tree vapours cool the planet, and that protecting old-growth forests would be one of the best ways to counteract global heating.

Global deforestation costs far more than the current banking crisis (2008). Yet another sobering calculation exposing the lack of political will.

An international project started in 2005 to raise awareness for the Russian Taiga, including community-based harvesting of sustainable forest products.

Advances in biotechnology suggest gaining electricity from trees. Such small dispersed systems could be build by everyone and support decentralisation.