WORLD TREE NEWS

After prayers of the U'wa tribe in Colombia an entire oil field disappeared and 100 million US dollars of excavation spendings could not bring it back.

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

For the U'wa, an indigenous people in northeastern Colombia, oil is the blood of the Earth, and to extract it is equivalent to committing matricide.

After 150 years, the first pair of wild wolves have reared their young in Germany. The wolf is returning to Europe from Russia and the Carpathian Mountains.

A mile and a half of prehistoric mixed forest of oak, ash, alder, Scots pine, and yew has been discovered on the south bank of the Thames.

Destruction of tropical rainforest is often followed by the outbreak of new diseases. An unknown virus was discovered in the blood of the workmen…