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Where the Wood-Wide Web Went Wrong

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The regenerating power of Big Basin’s redwoods

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Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees

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Cork is making a comeback

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The Wood Database

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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate (2018)

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What made World of Warcraft's environments so compelling?

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A Single Fire Killed at Least 10% of the World's Giant Sequoias, Study Says

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In Chile three border collies are planting seeds (2017)

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The Miyawaki Method: A Better Way to Build Forests? (2019)

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The Social Life of Forests

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Cashew of Pirangi

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2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park

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A man who grows fields full of tables and chairs (2015)

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Dream Homes from the Past Century

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A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past

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Aussie firefighters save world's only groves of prehistoric Wollemi pines

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Philosophy as a public service

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The World’s Oldest Forest Has 385M-Year-Old Tree Roots

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India's Meghalaya 'living root bridges' get stronger as the trees grow

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Illegal Pot Grows in America's Public Forests Are Poisoning Wildlife and Water

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We were supposed to be living in pod houses

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The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender

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We, the peoples of the Amazon, are full of fear. Soon you will be too

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The Wood Database

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Botanists rediscover rare Hawaiian flower thought extinct, thanks to a drone

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Nitrogen-fixing trees “eat” rocks, play pivotal role in forest health

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Arborists Have Cloned Ancient Redwoods from Their Massive Stumps

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Why isn't bamboo wood a bigger industry?

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The Pontoon Bridges That Carry Millions at Kumbh Mela

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Bali’s 'magic' bamboo homes [video]

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The Hardest Woods

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Indigenous community built a DIY drone to fight off illegal loggers (2016)

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Riving, a Viking-age woodworking technique

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A biologist who believes that trees speak a language we can learn to listen to

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How Tree Trunks Are Cut to Produce Wood with Different Appearances and Uses

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In Chile, border collies are sowing seeds, bringing life back to forests (2017)

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Unusual Homes Around the World (2015)

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RIP the Broccoli Tree

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Exploring How and Why Trees ‘Talk’ to Each Other

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What is the oldest living organism on the planet?

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Last major primeval forest in Europe on 'brink of collapse'

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The world's cities with the most bookstores and libraries per capita

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A Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing

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Scientists say sudden oak death epidemic is no longer stoppable

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6,000-year-old temple with sacrificial altars discovered in Ukraine

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A 390-year-old bonsai tree survived an atomic bomb

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Argentina is the bookshop capital of the world

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Back to the iPhone 5S

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The loneliest plant in the world (2011)

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The Man Who Single-Handedly Converted a Washed-Out Land Into a 1,360 Acre Forest

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World’s narrowest house by Jakub Szczesny

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How cork is made

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Do trees communicate? Networks, networks

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Video: 15 story Ark Hotel built in 6 days in Shanghai

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Ancient redwoods recover from fire by sprouting 1000-year-old buds

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Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar industry

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Old vs. new growth trees and the wood products they make

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Unearthing the oldest forest on Earth

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The extraordinary lives of coast redwoods

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Giant sequoias are a rapidly growing feature of the UK landscape

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Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'

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Mini rope bridges built in Forest of Dean to help dormice

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Bolivia's little-known African tribal kingdom (2021)

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A photographer captures life in America's last remaining old-growth forests

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