The city of Lakewood is considering approving permits that would allow a landowner to cut down an oak tree that is at least 900 years old to make way for a semi-truck parking lot. Birds could be heard chirping in the tree’s enormous branches on Wednesday afternoon when The News Tribune visited the site in…
Hong Kong authorities are using artificial intelligence and laser-based sensors to improve environmental impact assessments for major projects, with plans to use these tools for sustainable development in the Northern Metropolis. The Environmental Protection Department has been employing two systems – one for detecting bird species and another for monitoring trees – at Hong Kong…
Susan Orozco thought she had seen everything in her 40 years living in Boyle Heights, until she received a Christmas Day surprise — a tornado. The Lee Street homeowner was weathering the week’s relentless storm when she heard a roar just after 10 a.m. and figured the rain might have picked up. That was until…
Q: Greetings and Salutations, Ask Us Guy: As I raked the seemingly endless amount of leaves dropping from our trees for the second time this fall, it occurred to me that removing this nutrient-rich yard waste might have unintended consequences. Are we, as professional homeowners, inadvertently depriving our trees of needed nutrients by raking the…
Four pedestrians were injured after being hit by a 10-metre-tall (33 feet) tree that toppled near a railway station in northern Hong Kong on Sunday night. Three women and a man were struck by the falling tree on San Wan Road near Sheung Shui MTR station in the New Territories shortly before 11pm, emergency services…
Four pedestrians were injured after being hit by a 10-metre-tall (33 feet) tree that toppled near a railway station in northern Hong Kong on Sunday night. Three women and a man were struck by the falling tree on San Wan Road near Sheung Shui MTR station in the New Territories shortly before 11pm, emergency services…
A three-year-old boy in China has shocked the nation after he miraculously survived an 18-storey fall from his residential building, thanks to a tree that broke his fall. As a mark of gratitude, the boy’s father later adorned the tree with a large red flower. The incident unfolded on July 15 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province,…
If hearing Minnesota State University biology graduate student Fen Sego describe plants as “he” or “she” rather than ‘it” wasn’t a sign of appreciation for local edible flora, a tattoo of stinging nettles on their arm would be a dead giveaway. As the spring weather sets in, so too comes the bountiful wild foods that…