trees
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Australia Has Venomous Snakes, Spiders, and… Trees
Notorious stinging trees from Australia cause agonising pain that can linger for weeks and even months. New research suggests this nettle relative is actually venomous, producing a toxin not unlike the venom of spiders.
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The Dangerous Seduction Of A Trillion Trees
The arc of U.S. Republican climate politics has gone from supporting market solutions like cap and trade to outright denial over the years. The fetid nature of U.S. conservative climate politics has done wonders for short-term political gain and obscenely enriched a small cadre of fossil fuel executives and lobbyists. But it now leaves Republicans…
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More Than Half Of European Trees Found Only In Europe Face Extinction
A new assessment shows that more than half of the trees only found in Europe are at risk of extinction.
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The Race To Save The Most Endangered Conifer In America
TORREYA STATE PARK, FLORIDA — Religious scholars have long debated where Noah constructed his floating zoo made of “gopher wood” (Genesis 6:14) and what tree the ark’s gopher wood even came from. Some residents in the Florida Panhandle have an unlikely answer. The place in question is, well, there, and the tree in question is…