WORLD TREE NEWS

Europe’s last extensive old-growth forests are vanishing fast, due to ‘semi-legal’ logging. For cheap wooden products in shops all over Europe (and the UK).

Subsidized mass clearance of trees and shrubs plus the spreading of maize monocultures, the worst crop for soil erosion, guarantee severe floods downstream.

A team at Bristol University found that the flower visits of bees are guided by their ability to detect and ‘read’ the electric fields around the blossoms.

When a massive paedophile ring was uncovered in British media business, the police (MET) did not find a more inappropriate name than 'Operation Yewtree’.

In November 2012, Canada's First Nations started a new incentive to raise their voices together. A new era of resourceful and peaceful protests has begun.

The global trend for higher temperatures and changing rain patterns is a growing cause for wildfires, but forest mismanagement is a huge factor too.